We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team … is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation … is weak. We also connect collaborative patents to the ethnic composition of the firm's U.S. inventors and cross …

asymmetry across countries, granting patents to technology in the emerging economy of China can serve as a signal of technology …-in-differences estimates using 4226 China–U.S. patent dyads and comparable U.S. patents support our hypotheses …

We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team … is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation … is weak. We also connect collaborative patents to the ethnic composition of the firm’s U.S. inventors and cross …

creation alliances lead to more valuable patents as they receive significantly more forward citations per patent. Knowledge …

performance of downstream R&D. Using both the RIETI inventor survey in Japan and the bibliographic information of triadic patents … of the patents citing standard documents has been increasing. The citation information in US patent documents can be … knowledge flow. The R&D projects intensively using standard information tend to generate valuable patents and also a large …

innovation. Yet, denying patents on research inputs can frustrate patent law’s broad goal to protect and promote advances in … patent.” This regime would allow inventors to obtain patents on research inputs and extract their full value through … licensing and enforcement. Research patents would impose minimal administrative costs on the patent system and ultimately …

attracting patents, mostly because of their favourable tax treatment, especially for high-quality patents. Patent boxes with a … large scope in terms of tax base definition also have stronger effects on the location of patents. The size of the tax …

attracting patents, mostly because of their favourable tax treatment, especially for high-quality patents. Patent boxes with a … large scope in terms of tax base definition also have stronger effects on the location of patents. The size of the tax …

This paper contributes to the debate on the internationalization of the R&D activity of multinational enterprises (MNEs …). Specifically, we examine the following research questions: (1) What are the determinants of the MNEs’ R&D internationalization … different strategy mixes by MNEs? To this end, we merge data on 2,000 global research leaders from the 2012-2014 period with the …

This paper tests a number of hypotheses on the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect … innovation. While previous studies have often considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate …