limited by patent holder’s monopoly pricing. The owner of the new technology might choose a license fee that restricts output …

The dissertation analyses patent valuation methods with a special focus on the income approach. Two alternative …

country level R&D and patent information, I present efficiency scores based on intertemporal frontier estimation for the … country level R&D and patent information, I present efficiency scores based on intertemporal frontier estimation for the …

based on a novel dataset constructed from multiple sources: inventor surveys, the United States Patent and Trademark Office … strategies. In particular, firms are more likely to use a patent for strategic defensive purposes when they have larger amounts …

the enactment of the first nationwide German patent law in 1877 and 1932. This patent act enabled both, national and … the cross-border importance of patent protection for domestic and foreign inventors and economies is still …-1932. Therefore, we study the potential influence of patent laws, institutional quality, and primary and secondary schooling. Controls …

uses patent renewal data. Employing Cox regression technique, we explore the question what factors (such as patent …’s technological class and patentee’s nationality) impact patent survival. The concluding part of this dissertation summarizes the main … results and points out tentative directions for further research using this patent data set. …