economy only half of the West German level. Accordingly, the intensity of patent application and the innovativeness of …

. Under speed-dependent evolution, a patent-based system will fail to target socially optimal innovation size. The overall … competitors. The paper examines the capacity for decentralised patent-based incentive mechanisms to result in socially optimal … incompatibility between the dynamics of the patent system and the dynamics of the resistance problem under both types of evolution …

In 2010 China was the world's fourth largest filer of patent applications. This followed a decade of unprecedented … firms increasingly file patent applications that are based on inventor activities located in emerging economies, often …

earnings for a patent grant and for highly-cited patents a longer-lasting premium of 30% in earnings three years later. Similar … medium-term premia accrue to inventors who initially hold the patent rights, although they forego earnings at the time of the …

results on the relation between patenting and innovation size are then confronted with survey data for small European firms …. Using a binary size measure, we find strong support for the traditional view that firms patent their most important …

This paper examines recent contributions on innovation protection practices in small and medium enterprises (SMEs … particularities on the appropriability of SME innovations are discussed. In this way, the paper contributes to the ongoing debate …

significantly positively correlated with innovation in both Japan and the EU. A tentative interpretation might be that a rise in … evidence about the policy-induced development of environmentally friendly technology. I use patent data from 1976 to 1997 for … the US, Japan and the major European countries in order to estimate the effect of energy prices on energy …

. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity … technologies. This study relies on patent data to examine international innovative activity in concentrating solar power … solar thermal technologies to the International Patent Classification (IPC) system. To this end we suggest a narrowly …

This paper re-visits the empirical failure to establish a clear link between R&D efforts and patent counts at the … industry level. It is claimed that the 'propensity-to-patent' concept should be split into an 'appropriability propensity' and … countries over 19 years. The results confirm that the R&D-patent relationship is affected by research productivity …