innovation. Yet, denying patents on research inputs can frustrate patent law’s broad goal to protect and promote advances in … patent.” This regime would allow inventors to obtain patents on research inputs and extract their full value through … licensing and enforcement. Research patents would impose minimal administrative costs on the patent system and ultimately …

This paper contributes to the debate on the internationalization of the R&D activity of multinational enterprises (MNEs …). Specifically, we examine the following research questions: (1) What are the determinants of the MNEs’ R&D internationalization … different strategy mixes by MNEs? To this end, we merge data on 2,000 global research leaders from the 2012-2014 period with the …

patenting, our results further suggest that knowledge creation alliances lead to patents that are filed to protect valuable …&D Collaboration ; Knowledge Exchange ; Patents ; Innovation ; Count Data Models …

patenting, our results further suggest that knowledge creation alliances lead to patents that are filed to protect valuable …

scientific assignee and which are owned by corporate entities. Our findings suggest that faculty patents assigned to corporations …. Faculty patents assigned to academic inventors or to public research institutions, in contrast, are more complex, more basic …

academic patents protect more basic inventions than corporate patents. This study provides new evidence on the basicness of … academic patents using German professor patents linked to patent opposition data from the European Patent Office (EPO). Patent … oppositions are the most important mechanism by which the validity of patents filed at the EPO can be challenged. Controlling for …

literature on strategic patenting, our results may further suggest that creation alliances lead to patents that are filed to …

inventions. Instead it uses its patents offensively and actively to block its competitors …