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 …

PCT patent applications reach only a third of the non-Chinese quality benchmark, the extension towards domestic and self … are to be interpreted as a measure of patent quality …

PCT patent applications reach only a third of the non-Chinese quality benchmark, the extension towards domestic and self … are to be interpreted as a measure of patent quality. …

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 …

. Our evidence, which builds on a database that matches research institutions to a sample of their patent applications …, indicates patent applications to the European Patent Office (EPO) filed by research institutions grew faster than industry … patent applications remains low and their ratio of patents granted to applications is below that of industry. An econometric …

Innovation and progress in science and technology (Samp;T) top China's economic agenda. The central government …'s guiding policy document for the promotion of innovation is the Medium to Long Term Plan for the Development of Samp;T (the … Samp;T Plan) issued in January 2006. The Samp;T Plan articulates the ambitious goal of China becoming an quot;innovation …

In terms of the number of its patent applications, in 2012 China has emerged as the country with the largest IP office … studies have been devoted to the rise of domestic patenting in China, hardly any study has focused on Chinese patent filings … in foreign countries. This paper analyzes Chinese patenting abroad by using WIPO’s foreign-oriented patent family dataset …

in exceptional circumstances, and rarely, if ever, in innovation-intensive industries. For those cases that pass this … induce them to invest time and capital in highly risky innovation that is the source of economic growth and welfare. It …

the capacity of China's NIS in creating indigenous innovation. We provide insights drawing upon patent data and using … patent families to determine the value of the underlying invention. For the timeframe we studied, China's comparative … volumes of patent applications mirror both, the improved protection of intellectual property rights and increasing capacity …