An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with … and patents. We document key empirical facts on inventors' productivity over the life cycle, inventors' research teams … better inventors are very strongly correlated with higher subsequent productivity. These facts motivate the main ingredients …

An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with … and patents. We document key empirical facts on inventors' productivity over the life cycle, inventors' research teams … better inventors are very strongly correlated with higher subsequent productivity. These facts motivate the main ingredients …

A Comparison of National Laws on Inventor Compensation in Germany, France, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …