collaboration. However, patent documents reveal that a number of inventor teams are able to overcome long distances. Earlier …

The paper studies the patent productivity of scientists over their life cycle. The incentives for patenting and for … productivity over the life time. In the empirical part the patents of nearly 1000 German patent active professors are analyzed. The … empirical findings support the theoretical prediction that patent productivity does not decline for older scientists. …

We explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent …-Maddala and log normal distributions, the log normal appears to provide the best fit to our patented invention value data. …

academic patents using German professor patents linked to patent opposition data from the European Patent Office (EPO). Patent … patent value, asymmetric information and diverging expectations between the opposition parties, the likelihood of a … applied by owners of potentially rival technologies. -- academic inventors ; intellectual property rights ; patent oppositions …