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Everything you always wanted to know about inventors (but never asked) : evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey
Giuri, Paola; Mariani, Myriam; Brusoni, Stefano; … - 2006
Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441539
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Determinants of International Patent Examination Outcomes
Palangkaraya, Alfons; Jensen, Paul H.; Webster, Elizabeth - 2015
This paper examines the factors that cause differences in patent examination outcomes at the trilateral patent offices using a dataset of more than 70,000 non-PCT patent applications filed at the European and Japanese Patent Offices conditional upon them being granted by the United States Patent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064652
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Is there such a thing called scientific waste?
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Klamer, Arjo - 2004
publication statistics or competitive attention seeking strategies. The badly designed use of market principles in which citations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342556
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An experimental contribution to the revision of the guidelines on research and development agreements
Engel, Christoph - 2010
The European Commission is working on a revision of its Guidelines on Research and Development Agreements. On this occasion, this note surveys the existing experimental evidence. Experiments add a number of additional arguments to the normative assessment. R&D agreements have a much smaller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779115
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Cutting too close? : design protection and innovation in fashion goods
Hackett, Petal Jean - 2012
Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488919
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Are joint patents collusive? : evidence from the US and Europe
Fosfuri, Andrea; Helmers, Christian; Roux, Catherine - 2013
We investigate whether patents that are jointly held by legally independent companies help sustain product-market collusion. We use a simple model of repeated interactions to show that joint patents can serve collusive purposes. Our model generates two testable predictions: when joint patents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009791540
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The market value of blocking patent citations
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Leten, Bart - 2011
shown that patents and their quality as measured by citations received by future patents contribute significantly to the … forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of … the art, it can also be cited because it threatens the novelty of patent applications ("blocking citations"). Empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008937317
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Statistical Patent Analysis Indicators as a Means of Determining Country Technological Specialisation
Khramova, Ekaterina - 2013
Patent data provide a rich set of information which can be used for comparative studies and trend analysis. The paper presents a systematic overview of the most appropriate tools methodologies that are available for determining the technological specialization of countries. Such analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083545
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The Market Value of Blocking Patent Citations
Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2014
shown that patents and their quality as measured by citations received by future patents contribute significantly to the … forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of … the art, it can also be cited because it threatens the novelty of patent applications (“blocking citations”). Empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067836
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Financing Technology Transfer
Darcy, Jacques - 2014
Global policy discussions increasingly focus on innovation and the knowledge economy as a driver of long-term growth. In parallel new forms of innovation processes are emerging, notably open innovation and innovation networks stressing the importance of connections between various stakeholders....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068018