Using firm level panel data from the U.S., I explore the relationship between firm size and R&D productivity for two … obtained per dollar of investments. I find that the average quality of patents (citations received per patent) falls with firm … size in Pharmaceuticals, but there is no relationship between patent quality and firm size in Semiconductors. Citations …

This article investigates the role of industry driven coordination mechanisms such as consortia and patent pools in the … international Standard Development Organizations (SDO), we investigate how informal standardization consortia and patent pools … influence the number and timing of patent declarations to formal SDOs. In spite of the increasing problems raised by the high …

horizontal R&D cooperation can be effectively treated as a complementary tool (to such traditional solutions as patent protection …

In any assessment of the R&D capabilities of Indian companies, their patent holdings would have to be examined. Here we … Australia being much smaller ones. However, the companies have unpredictable patterns of patent holdings across these four …