Patent thickets, or an explosion in complementary patents causing resource constraints, have been known to affect firm … inspection on how social network effect and patent thickets affect firm market value in the context of social networks in patent … cooperation by analyzing a sample of 419 electronic equipment manufacturing firms in China. Our findings suggest that while patent …

drive many high technology strategies. For a variety of reasons, too many high-tech companies own patent rights without … having an accurate understanding of the true value and real/potential risks associated with their patent portfolios or … without initially developing and executing an assessment to thoroughly understand what their patent portfolios will entail …

This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering … show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect of FDI on domestic innovation when the intellectual property … on why developing countries should encourage FDI and strengthen the IPR regime together to enhance domestic innovation …

We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance … based on patent abstracts and classify patent ownership using a comprehensive business registry. We highlight four insights …. First, average patent importance declined from 2000-2010 but has increased more recently. Second, private Chinese firms …