that collaborating firms are more likely to patent than others. Within the group of collaborating firms, participants in … publicly sponsored R&D consortia exhibit a higher propensity to patent than firms in non-sponsored networks. Especially SMEs …

collaboration and subsidies as heterogeneous treatments, and perform an econometric matching to analyze patent activity at the firm … exhibit a significant impact on patent activity, but the innovative performance could be improved by additional incentives for …

collaboration and subsidies as heterogeneous treatments, and perform an econometric matching to analyze R&D and patent activity at …

nanomaterials. We analyse European Patent Office data at the German district level (NUTS-3) on applications for nanomaterial patents …

from our own relational database that makes use of the OECD RegPAT (2009) files. The matching between International Patent … regional patent data. Our analysis explicitly accounts for different network centrality measures (betweenness, degree …

on the basis of patent data was conducted and a weighted bivariate probit model was estimated on the citation probability … of industry and science on the basis of a combined sample of citing and cited patent pairs and an equal number of control … patent pairs. The empirical results suggest that there are considerable differences in the citation probability. Cultural …

subsequent years. For patents, we find that industry funding increases their quality measured by patent citations. …