In this paper we look at patents as alternative to trade secrets. We disentangle the disclosure motive for patent … protection from the traditional reward motive by adjusting the level of patent protection so as to make the innovator just … indifferent between patenting and keeping the innovation secret. Thus, we keep the reward (expected profits) to the innovator …

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 …

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. …This paper tries to find how firms use IPRs in the form of patents to protect innovation capital and find determinants …

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

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 …

set of opportunities for innovation in agricultural biotechnologies. Moreover, the institutional, regulatory and …

positively correlated with technological quality as defined by the patent offices. This premise is taken for granted in classical … defined by the patent offices - on private patent value. To do so, the theoretical links between private values of patents …, technological invention quality, incentives to oppose patents before the European Patent Office (EPO), and observable patent …

of critical knowledge. Given that a patent specification has to include a clear description of the patented matter so … to patent law. This paper provides a model identifying the incentives for firms to deliberately obscure their inventive … knowledge in a patent specification. …

In recent years, firms have increasingly contributed to and been confronted with a patent landscape characterized by … numerous but marginal inventions, overlapping claims and patent fences. As a result, firms risk their patent applications to be …