.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector …

examiners to identify the causal effect of a US patent grant on the subsequent export performance of Chinese firms. Successful … first-time patent applicants achieve significantly higher export growth, compared to otherwise similar first-time applicants …We investigate how international patent activity enables firms from emerging economies to thrive in the global …

in imports from China on innovation in the US manufacturing sector. We combine patent, firm and trade data during 1990 … positive effect on firm innovation, as measured by citation-weighted patent applications. This positive effect persists when we … relationship between import competition and innovation by considering industry and firm heterogeneity. We find that firms in low …

on the effects of the patent stock on profitability. The data base is a representative sample of German manufacturing … patent stock has a strong and robust effect on profitability. …

empirical study on the determinants of innovative activity measured by patent applications are presented. A sample of German … innovation, i.e. weakly controlled managers show a higher innovation propensity. However, the higher the leverage the more …

patent quantity is driven by knowledge exchange rather than joint R&D. Firms engaged in joint R&D, on the other hand, receive … more forward citations per patent indicating that joint R&D enhances patent quality. In light of literature on strategic … patenting, our results further suggest that knowledge creation alliances lead to patents that are filed to protect valuable …

consistent approach to integrate innovation, space and economic growth into a coherent theoretical framework A potential reason …. To shed some additional light on the spatial dimension of innovation we present results of a first-cut analysis building … on a recently developed cross sectional-time series data set of US innovation, private and university research and high …

number of research scholars) are transformed into research outputs in the form of publications and patents. We expect …

innovation while the mere size of the universities is unimportant. Differences in the effect on innovative output can be found …

sustain the innovation process that is at the basis of our prosperity. In this paper we deal with the age distributions of … among inventors. Additionally, we advance the new hypothesis that any age-bias in innovation activity should show up as … is industry specific. We test this hypothesis with European patent data for Germany. …