generated patents. I show that cultural diversity and openness of a place affect its economic performance positively in terms of … innovation also when referring to intra-country differences. …

This paper examines the relationship between investment in innovation and productivity across firms in Ireland. We … relationships between investment in innovation, innovation outputs and productivity. Our results indicate that innovation is … positively linked to productivity. This result holds for all types of innovation and for both R&D and non-R&D expenditures. The …

examine product innovation and patent application counts of a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms from 1990 … examining innovation outcomes. We argue that exporters can often access diverse knowledge inputs not available in the domestic … market, that this knowledge can spill back to the focal firm, and that such learning can foster increased innovation. We …

Innovation and export decisions are closely interlinked. Both activities contribute to firm performance in various ways … knowledge for firms. This study analyzes whether different types of innovation affect export behavior at the firm level for an …, we analyze export intensity by means of Tobit models. We find that innovation fosters export intensity. Overall, the …

-centered open innovation, characterized by a for-profit motive and the interplay between patents and contracts, resulting in …Open innovation is the subject of increased scholarly debate. A lot of attention has thereby been paid to firm … communities the present paper examines how the law can assist in establishing a new approach to open innovation (‘new' open …

patentability standards at PTOs (Patent and Trademark Offices awarding so-called bad patents), not only “false innovators” have the … chance of being granted patents but also, and more interestingly, “true innovators” are forced to patent more intensively … distortions caused by bad patents. Moreover, we show that introducing a two-tiered patent system is unlikely to improve market …

The recent surge of patent disputes plays an important role in discouraging firms from entering new technology domains … (TDs). Using a large-scale dataset combining data from the EPO-PATSTAT database and ORBIS-IP and containing patents applied … at EPO between 2000 and 2015, we construct a new measure of litigiousness using patent opposition data. We find that the …

We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the … patent universe in its technological and economic variety. We introduce a novel instrumental variable for patent invalidation … that exploits personnel scarcity in post-grant opposition at the European Patent Office. We find that patent invalidation …

We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the … patent universe in its technological and economic variety. We introduce a novel instrumental variable for patent invalidation … that exploits personnel scarcity in post-grant opposition at the European Patent Office. We find that patent invalidation …

using a patentability requirement--a minimum innovation size required for patents. A patentability requirement can stimulate …This article investigates patent protection for a long sequence of innovations where firms repeatedly supersede each … something better. To correct this problem, patents must provide protection against future innovators. This article proposes …