We develop a dynamic duopoly model of R&D competition to improve the quality of a finalgood. The innovation process is … production model under two distinct intellectual property right (IPR) regimes,essentially a patent system with and without a … traditional plant breeder’srights allow for a well-defined research exemption, whereas standard utility patents do not …

and new knowledgegenerated we use counts of patent filings per county. The proposed geographic spillin is tested for theUS … and implementing spatial statistical methods. The data setis comprised of primary inventor utility patent filings per …

innovation. Yet, firms do patent, as indicated by the largenumber of patents that are granted. This paper offers a possible …Recent surveys report that firms claim they do not rely heavily on patents in order toappropriate a return on their … resolution to this puzzle.It takes a simplified version of a duopoly innovation race, and studies the patenting decisionof an …

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 …

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 …