networks of four selected regions are based on information on patent applicants and inventors. Count data regressions show … positive effects on innovation of both the total number of relations and of access to a larger knowledge base. However, when … some sort of public good to the innovation system. …

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. …

Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation … cooperations are the innovation dynamics at the industry level. Firms who operate an R&D department and firms who are involved in …

mechanisms for medium inventions, and patent their most important innovations. This result reestablishes the traditional view …

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 … the market. At the invention level, our findings confirm that patents from firms engaged in science are more frequently …

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 … have been registered by residents of that region. Different measures and estimation approaches lead to rather similar … efficiency of its innovation system is inversely u-shaped. Regions dominated by large establishments tend to be less efficient …

We explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent …-Maddala and log normal distributions, the log normal appears to provide the best fit to our patented invention value data. …

technology fields (ISI-SPRU-OST concordance) and 6 high-technology fields based on data on EPO patent applications and EPO … inventors for the reference period 1977-2004. Based upon OECD RegPAT database (January 2009), we extract EPO patent applications … analysis differ in their overall size with respect to the stock of EPO patent applications and inventors; (ii) the share of …