The strengthening of the U.S. patent regime in the early eighties was followed by a sharp increase in patenting but did … development to examine the effects of a patent regime change on the patenting and R&D decisions of firms in complex industries … consider two different environment — one without licensing and one with licensing. While a stronger patent regime leads to …

international licensing agreements developed with the French Patent office (INPI). As a main result, we highlight a stronger …

higher rewards where "ideas are scarce." We then explore how rewards should be structured when the value of an innovation … comes from its applications, and ideas for the innovation may be more or less scarce than ideas for the applications. …

higher rewards where "ideas are scarce." We then explore how rewards should be structured when the value of an innovation … comes from its applications, and ideas for the innovation may be more or less scarce than ideas for the applications. …

innovation and finds that they are qualitatively different from those found in earlier studies of more generally representative …, only the largest firms were likely to identify patents as the most important method of appropriating innovation returns … regarding the functioning of the existing systems of intellectual property rights when key policy goals include innovation by …

This paper introduce a list of desirable efficiency properties that any a patent system should have in order to enhance … innovation, trade competitiveness, employment mobility and economic growth. We briefly overview the literature on patents and … System. In particular, we discuss the costinefficiencies observed in the current design of the EU Patent System based in a …

heavily on the valuation of patent rights, as this gives a possible measurement of innovation output. …In 2004 the German Patent and Trademark Office commissioned the Ifo Institute to deliver a research report on the topic … "Identification of Available and Desirable Indicators for Patent Systems, Patenting Processes and Patent Rights". - The report …

The development of formal ICT standards is a challenging form of collaborative innovation, combining consensus decision … panel of standards, we then confirm empirically the prediction that consortia have different effects on innovation under a … Public Good or Rent Seeking regime. Overall, we observe an increase in innovation after a firm joined a consortium. However …

innovation for less than the full length of the patent and that royalty contracts can be used to overcome a time …

innovation for less than the full length of the patent and that royalty contracts can be more profitable than fixed-fee licensing …