) adjustment processes, thus reassessing the appropriability ad disclosure function of patents. Then, the paper presents a taxonomy … appropriability, within the perspective of policies shaping scientific, technological and production capabilities in the light of … of contemporary markets for knowledge, flagging the existence of what we call derivative markets for knowledge. Patents …

) - to provide pharmaceutical product patents with a 20-year protection term. Developing country members, other than LDCs …) How does the introduction of product patents in pharmaceuticals affect the likelihood of pharmaceutical firms to launch …

. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for …

This note expounds the abstract fundamentals of the appropriability problem, re-assessing insights from three classic … implications of appropriability for society at large, Teece's main concern was with practical questions of business strategy and … perspective, can be seen as filling a significant gap in the previous theoretical discussion of appropriability. …

mechanisms (IPPMs) in the formation of research partnerships. Patents are the most frequently used IPPM to protect both …

Patents have long been regarded as the 'gold standard' of intellectual property protection. In 'Little patents and big … patenting costs, patentability standards, and the fact that patents provide protection in competitive situations where secrecy … that patents are crucial to provide R&D incentives and is yet consistent with main empirical findings on the issue. …

venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents … British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate … attention to patent quality, financing those ventures faster which later turn out to have high-quality patents. Patent …