Federal subsidy data, topic-specific patents and publications, as well as the overall patent and publication activity. The … aim was to find out which determinants play a role in the location of bioeconomy patents at the municipality level and to … change the known structure of the life cycles. It appears that bioeconomy patents rather emerge in rural areas, and that …

This paper investigates the role of patent protection in the global investment decisions of multinational firms. Using … comprehensive firm-level panel data of German multinationals, we investigate how changes in a host country’s patent protection … influence the extensive and intensive margin of foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions. We isolate the effect of patent …

This paper analyzes the impact of taxation on the location of patents within multinational groups. Based on groups with … parents from 36 countries globally and their patent holdings in 36 European countries, we provide insight into the … determinants of three subsequent decisions: (1) the decision of whether to locate patents abroad; (2) in which countries to locate …