This paper investigates the determinants of EPO (European Patent Office) patent applications per capita using a panel … of 22 OECD countries with data measured as five-year averages for the period 1980-1999. The patent production function is … per capita. Business enterprise R&D (BERD) expenditures are more effective in generating patent applications than public …

Technological standards give rise to a complements problem that affects pricing and innovation incentives of technology … producers. In this paper I discuss how patent pools can be used to solve these problems and what incentives patent holders have … to form a patent pool. I offer some suggestions how competition authorities can foster the formation of welfare …

. 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 …

We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive … impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers … exert no such independent influence on drastic innovation activities. The results support the hypothesis that establishments …

factors of success in drug development programs at different stages of innovation process. We use economies of scale, scope, R …&D competition and technological spillovers as explanatory variables and test whether the effect of these variables on the success of … a project differs in relation to the discovery and development stages of innovation, respectively. Our main finding is …

causes a relocation of R&D activities if intrafirm communication is sufficiently well developed, external spillovers are …

The imperfect appropriability of revenues from innovation affects the incentives of firms to invest, and to disclose … information about their innovative productivity. It creates a free-rider effect in the competition for the innovation that … emerges for extreme revenue spillovers (e.g., full protection and no protection of intellectual property), but either partial …

We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function … assessments. We find that both spillovers within the private sector as well as from universities and other public research … efficiency of its innovation system is inversely u-shaped. Regions dominated by large establishments tend to be less efficient …

We investigate the dimensions through which R&D spillovers are propagated across firms via cooperation through Research … technology spillovers and product market rivalry, and extend it to account for RJVs. Our main findings are that the adverse …

We investigate the dimensions through which R&D spillovers are propagated across firms via cooperation through Research … technology spillovers and product market rivalry, and extend it to account for RJVs. Our main findings are that the adverse …