for short) of 9,017 patents granted by theEuropean Patent Office (EPO) between 1993 and 1997, located in France, Germany …This paper provides new information, not available from other sources, on the characteristics ofthe innovation process … in Europe, and on the economic use and value of European patents. Ourdata are drawn from a survey (PatVal-EU, or PatVal …

foradjacent regions. One main finding is that the quality of the university research makes somecontribution to regional innovation …

consistent approach to integrate innovation, space and economic growth into a coherent theoretical framework A potential reason …. To shed some additional light on the spatial dimension of innovation we present results of a first-cut analysis building … on a recently developed cross sectional-time series data set of US innovation, private and university research and high …

thought to influence the firm’s innovation activity. We examine more than eightyvariables that approximate the financial …

In an experimental setting, firms in a duopoly market engage in a patent tournamentand compete for profit … theensuing innovation race, firms interact through information spillovers resulting fromthe imperfect appropriability of research … of agents who are engaged in innovation activities. As a key element wetest to what extend relative economic performance …

We show that if patent protection and trade secrecy generate asymmetricmarket structure, an innovator may prefer patent …

innovation and imitation incentives.Surprisingly from an economic standpoint, however, various calculation methodsfor damages are …

Patent trolls appropriate profits from innovation solely by enforcing patents against infringers.They are often … characterized as relying on low-quality patents, an assessment that, if correct,would imply that eradicating such patents would … effectively terminate the troll business. Inthis paper, we shed light on this issue by empirically analyzing trolls’ patent …

the capacity of China’s NIS in creating indigenous innovation.We provide insights drawing upon patent data and using … patent families to determine the valueof the underlying invention. For the timeframe we studied, China’s comparative … of patent applications mirror both, the improved protection ofintellectual property rights and increasing capacity for …

1999-2004 and measureinnovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at theEuropean Patent … scientistscontribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, inturn, contribute slightly less to … industrial innovation than recent university graduates. Bycontrast, immobile workers add little to the innovative activity of …