Aghion, Van Reenen and Zingales (2013) find that institutional ownership causes an increase in innovation as measured … ownership and innovation is robust in 22% of robustness checks. On average, 2nd stage z-scores were just 42.7% of the original …

We model the economics of the effects of standards on incentives for innovative investment. We use survey data from …

This article compares the relationship between patent quality and patent value in discrete and cumulative innovation … size, we build a quality factor jointly driving all indicators for 9255 patents. We then test the significance of this … robust and significant link between patent quality and value in samples of discrete and complex technology patents, there is …

on firms' innovation activities and incentives to innovate up to a high degree of technological imitation, while free … technological imitation is more detrimental for firms in innovation clusters because it lowers those firms' incentives to innovate … between imitation and innovation. Using US patent data for the period 1977-2005, we find that there are inverted U …

asymmetry across countries, granting patents to technology in the emerging economy of China can serve as a signal of technology …-in-differences estimates using 4226 China–U.S. patent dyads and comparable U.S. patents support our hypotheses …

-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 …

competition increases (decreases) incentives to invent following Arrow (Schumpeter) based on product market features …

reduces the incentives to exert effort in R&D activities. Then, drawing on the signaling role of patents highlighted by the … 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 …

This paper examines the impact of government assistance through R&D grants on innovation output for firms in New … the world while its effects on process innovation and any product innovation are relatively much weaker. Moreover, there …