This paper tries to find how firms use IPRs in the form of patents to protect innovation capital and find determinants … find a link between patent propensity, R&D and innovation performance. Descriptive analyses show that Polish manufacturing … increase in patent propensity affects the firm's innovation performancepositively. …

competition. I find that in the past decade the fraction of antitrust cases that relate to patents and innovation has increased … size and with patent ownership; smaller firms with more rapid sales growth are also more likely to be charged with …

industry? Our paper studies the role of patents and trademarks and their complementary and substitutive relationships to … period. The results of a panel vector autoregressive model show a short-lived positive effect of patents on sales growth and … complementary relationship between patents and trademarks is documented. …

This collection investigates the phenomenon of ""Open Innovation,"", in which firms draw on research and development … that may lie outside their own boundaries. The book's contributors link the practice of innovation to the established body … of innovation rsearch, showing what's new and what's familiar in the process. Looking in depth at a process recently …

Many countries have strengthened their patent laws over the past 20 years as they have implemented their WTO … when the level of patent protection offered in the U.S. was higher than that offered in countries with lower production … costs. The rationale is straightforward – firms that rely on patent protection may have been more inclined to produce …