The aim of this paper is to test whether patent-based indicators are still reliable measures of innovativeness in light … already under way respectively at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO). For most … biotechnology industry in Italy, whose firms, by definition, have Intellectual Property (IP) activities in their portfolios. For …

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 … efficiency of its innovation system is inversely u-shaped. Regions dominated by large establishments tend to be less efficient …

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. …

. 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 …

In 2010 China was the world's fourth largest filer of patent applications. This followed a decade of unprecedented … firms increasingly file patent applications that are based on inventor activities located in emerging economies, often …

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 …

economy only half of the West German level. Accordingly, the intensity of patent application and the innovativeness of …