innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family … commercialized as well as whether this commercialization was profitable or not. Thus, this patent database measures technological …

Managers make a number of strategic choices when trying to capture returns from innovation investments, including what … appropriation strategy to use and whether or not to patent, strategic choices that depend among other things on firm size. Previous … literature, being reviewed in this paper, shows that the patent propensity is lower in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs …