the market. At the invention level, our findings confirm that patents from firms engaged in science are more frequently …This paper examines the diversity of the types of links of firms to science and their effect on innovation performance …, firms with a science link enjoy superior innovation performance, in particular with respect to innovations that are new to …

associated with their innovation performance. Using a sample of Flemish firms, we show that there exists considerable … heterogeneity in the type of links to science at the firm level. Overall, firms with a science link enjoy superior innovation … performance, in particular with respect to innovations that are new to the market. At the invention level, our findings confirm …

We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function … efficiency of its innovation system is inversely u-shaped. Regions dominated by large establishments tend to be less efficient …

This paper develops theoretical standpoints to investigate and analyse university inventors and patenting activities … been enough studies on individual inventors and second the current theoretical studies are not eclectic enough to capture … the different factors that may explain university inventors patenting activities. The framework described here addresses …

consequences of collaborator loss by exploiting 845 unexpected deaths of active inventors. We find that inventor death has a …

collaborator loss by exploiting 845 unexpected deaths of active inventors. We find that inventor death has a moderate negative …

innovation-relevant human capital or age-specific motivation to lead creative ideas to successful inventions. Departing from …

inventors. We estimate the effect of patented inventions on individual earnings by linking data on U.S. patents and their … 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 …

competition towards competition based on technical inventions, a worldwide surge in patenting took place, and the ?patent thicket … manufacturing in 2000, it turns out that patents are important to protect intellectual property in the market, whereas secrecy seems …

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 … fails. The latter aspect counteracts the empirically substantiated fact that, in situations where both appropriation …