We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance … based on patent abstracts and classify patent ownership using a comprehensive business registry. We highlight four insights …. First, average patent importance declined from 2000-2010 but has increased more recently. Second, private Chinese firms …

We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance … based on patent abstracts and classify patent ownership using a comprehensive business registry. We highlight four insights …. First, average patent importance declined from 2000-2010 but has increased more recently. Second, private Chinese firms …

Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm’s innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known … environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers affect firms' innovation persistence. The empirical analysis draws upon a … representative panel data set of firms in Germany from 2002-2016, complemented by detailed geographic information of patent activity …

employment effects of environmental and non-environmental product as well as process innovation. As a robustness check patent …This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth in the period 2006-2008 using firm … the average innovation engagement and innovation success of both types of new products. In contrast, environmental and non …