We investigate how international patent activity enables firms from emerging economies to thrive in the global … marketplace. We match Chinese customs data to US patent records, and leverage the quasi-random assignment of USPTO patent … examiners to identify the causal effect of a US patent grant on the subsequent export performance of Chinese firms. Successful …

incentives to innovate for society. Vociferous debates over patent reform pit the United States’ largest innovation industries … against each other in a dispute concerning whether stronger or weaker patent rights are necessary to promote innovation. Past … relationship between innovation and patent law. Rather than considering such problems directly, the proxy technique introduced here …

interac-tion between these two innovation tools by determining the impact of a crowdfunding campaign’s patent status on the …Patents and crowdfunding both attempt to foster early stage innova-tions. In theory, patents signal quality and value … campaign’s success and de-livery. The first study examines 9,184 Kickstarter campaigns in patent-eli-gible categories to …

that perfect patent protection is optimal under symmetric information, whereas this is not so if the licensor has private … for most patent protection levels, yet the latter dominates the former in the presence of an optimal policy for each …. This allows us to derive a combination of patent protection and R&D subsidy that yields the first-best results under …

This study identifies information accessibility as a determinant of corporate innovation. Using the sudden termination … innovation among firms relying on foreign technology. The results are stronger for firms in industries dominated by foreign … that the affected firms cite fewer foreign patents and their innovation efficiency declines after Google's exit. Overall …

the size of the innovation, and affects the incentives in the product market. A Cournot competitor tends to patent big … substitutability increases the incentives to patent the innovation. …An innovative firm with private information about its indivisible process innovation chooses strategically whether to …

the size of the innovation, and affects the incentives in the product market. A Cournot competitor tends to patent big … substitutability increases the incentives to patent the innovation. …An innovative firm with private information about its indivisible process innovation chooses strategically whether to …

An innovative firm chooses strategically whether to patent its process innovation or rely on secrecy. By doing so, the … firm manages its rival’s beliefs about the size of the innovation, and affects the incentives in the product market … an innovative firm with unknown costs and probabilistic patent validity. Increasing the number of firms (degree of …