attendant constellation of tacit knowledge regarding the interpretation and application of the information in the patent. The … through the patent system also provides important stability to attendant tacit knowledge. Patent doctrines regarding prior art …Recent studies of knowledge production have increasingly recognized the role of codified knowledge in the operation of …

several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different … questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … possible different attitudes and patterns of innovation that we control for, such as regional preconditions for knowledge and …

-competitive patent settlements and hold-ups in relation to standard setting processes, in addition to the modern focus on mergers that … potentially lessen incentives for innovation and on abuse of dominance/single firm exclusionary practices in IP-intensive network … importance for economic advancement and prosperity, having a direct bearing on innovation, growth and the diffusion of new …

. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I … estimate knowledge spillovers through outsourcing relationships between German firms, measured by the number of those firms …

framework. -- filing fees ; imitation ; innovation ; probabilistic patent rights ; R&D ; simultaneous innovation ; trade secrets … results on the relation between patenting and innovation size are then confronted with survey data for small European firms …. Using a binary size measure, we find strong support for the traditional view that firms patent their most important …