find a link between patent propensity, R&D and innovation performance. Descriptive analyses show that Polish manufacturing …. It also turns out that the perceived effectiveness of a patent depends on a firm's size, theinnovation type and … increase in patent propensity affects the firm's innovation performancepositively. …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …

survey conducted to beneficiaries, this study reconstructs the progress made by the patent applicants. The results show, on …

We examine the implications of pre-grant publication (PP) of patent applications in the context of a cumulative … welfare as well. -- R&D ; patents ; patent systems ; pre-grant patent publication ; patenting decision ; spillover ; consumer …

patent quantity is driven by knowledge exchange rather than joint R&D. Firms engaged in joint R&D, on the other hand, receive … more forward citations per patent indicating that joint R&D enhances patent quality. In light of literature on strategic …

. Using a binary size measure, we find strong support for the traditional view that firms patent their most important … framework. -- filing fees ; imitation ; innovation ; probabilistic patent rights ; R&D ; simultaneous innovation ; trade secrets …

mechanisms for medium inventions, and patent their most important innovations. This result reestablishes the traditional view …. -- heterogeneous inventions ; innovation size ; intellectual property rights ; patents ; patent filing fees ; patentability standards …

probabilistic distribution of the patent citations among several major sectors. Secondly, the firm-oriented data is studied to … investigate the relationships between the Belgian firms size and their patent citation behavior. The modeling results conclude … that there is evidence that the smaller firms tend to be more active in patent citation than larger ones. Analyzing the …