heavy electrical industry firms, compares organization behaviour, management decision making, Innovation research and …

In this paper we analyze 1026 patent applications filed by firms and inventors from the Friuli Venezia Giulia region in …

We provide new insights into the role of individual inventors in innovation. We focus our analysis on prolific … inventors in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. We analyse patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to thousands of …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

same industry. Hence, the IC design firms, which focus on product innovation, rely more on patent licensing to develop core … Valley, respectively, these IC firms can easily imitate any innovation through the interactions among intra-industry firms …. The contribution of intra-industry innovation development to firms' technological advancement is defined as the "spillover …

. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …' successful patent applications. The last chapter describes sector-level input-output relationships in eleven European economies …

model for patent policy and R&D subsidies, and discuss under what circumstances such policies should be directed towards …

role of patents and trade secrets on innovation. According to the analysis, first, service firms have fewer product … of the law protecting trade secrets on innovation and productivity growth in the service sector. …

issue, we build a model in which the value of an innovation depends both on the type of innovation implemented (product …, process) and on the existence of a patent protection or not. We obtain a three-equation model that links the values of product … and process innovations to the value of patent protection. This model and the feature of the data imply the estimation of …