Patent infringement awards are commonly thought to be unpredictable, which raises concerns that patents can lead to … unjust enrichment and impede the progress of innovation. We investigate the unpredictability of patent damages by conducting … a large-scale econometric analysis of award values. We begin by analyzing the outcomes of 340 cases decided in US …

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

heavy electrical industry firms, compares organization behaviour, management decision making, Innovation research and … the role of patents and licensing. Questionnaire. …

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

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

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are … entrepreneurial effort allocated to high-quality invention projects. Using data on patents granted to small firms and individuals, we …

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 …

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 …