Ascertaining whether patents encourage invention necessitates understanding the incentives inventors respond to. The … Industrial Revolution is hotly debated. This paper's contribution is to examine the incentives to patent, and the characteristics … of patentees, by observing the entire population of British patents granted up to the patent reforms of 1852. I find …

for all patents granted in England in the period 1700-1850. Our findings indicate that macroinventions did not exhibit any …

This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and … firms, in terms of patents and trademarks, and we study whether the two instruments for protecting IP exhibit …) between the patents and trademarks owned by the same firm and we then investigate whether such concordance exert any effect on …

From a firm’s perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand …, innovative performance is an important driver of profitability and growth. On the other hand, investments in innovation suffer … firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent …

This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering … show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect of FDI on domestic innovation when the intellectual property … on why developing countries should encourage FDI and strengthen the IPR regime together to enhance domestic innovation …

main dataset covers their intellectual properties, patents and trademarks, filed between 2005 and 2012. The paper extends …

set of opportunities for innovation in agricultural biotechnologies. Moreover, the institutional, regulatory and … private incentives for applications of biotechnology in agriculture. But the nature of these developments is raising real … – highlighting static and dynamic models and the effects of competition – and alternative incentives to innovate. A brief list of …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the …. Citation information has been found to provide very useful information on the value of patents, although backward citation as a … surveys such as the “innovation survey” of firms and the inventor survey. They have deepened our understanding of the …

investments in innovation. The implementation of R&D tax credit schemes, however, varies across countries. The empirical research … on the effectiveness of R&D tax incentives suggests that the strength of company responses (in R&D expenditures) to more … generous tax incentives substantially differ across countries. We use data from 25 OECD countries, collected from 2010 to 2018 …