do not only reflect differences in the propensity to patent but also signals differences in research productivity. We put … forward and test an empirical model that formally accounts for the productivity and the propensity component of the R&D-patent … and are primarily affected by varying propensities to patent. In contrast, international filings, especially triadic …

relies on patent data to explore three potential sources: R&D collaboration, technology sourcing, and technology transfer …

This paper re-visits the empirical failure to establish a clear link between R&D efforts and patent counts at the … industry level. It is claimed that the 'propensity-to-patent' concept should be split into an 'appropriability propensity' and … countries over 19 years. The results confirm that the R&D-patent relationship is affected by research productivity …

patent-based measure of Europe's innovation performance. It also identifies several policies that may affect the R&D-patent …

This paper analyses the role of patent-filing fees requested by the member states of the European Patent Convention … that the transfer rate of domestic priority filings to the European Patent Office (EPO) increases with the duration of … the EPO or at the United States Patent and Trademark Office to assess the innovative performance of countries …

This paper tackles one of the most persistent criticism of patent statistics. Because not all inventions are patented …, the patent-to-R&D ratio reflects both a productivity effect (the number of inventions created per unit of research input … methodology uses information on the density of patent value and leads to results that are easy to interpret. It is applied to a …

This paper seeks to understand how motives to patent affect the use of the patent portfolio with a particular focus on … conducted by the European Patent Office (EPO). The main results can be summarized as follows. First, small and medium … sample patent for monetary reasons. Second, SMEs tend to use their patents more actively than large firms. Third, smaller …

This paper decomposes the R&D-patent relationship at the industry level to shed light on the sources of the worldwide … surge in patent applications. The empirical analysis is based on a unique dataset that includes 5 patent indicators computed … for 18 industries in 19 countries covering the period from 1987 to 2005. The analysis shows that variations in patent …

reference such as the European Patent Office (EPO). Yet, not all organizations file their patents at the EPO, raising the …

The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of patent citation data in social science research …. Facilitated by digitization of the patent data and increasing computing power, a community of practice has grown up that has …. First, it takes stock of these main uses. Second, it discusses four pitfalls associated with patent citation data, related …