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University Patenting : A Comparison of 300 Leading Universities Worldwide
Fisch, Christian; Hassel, Tobias; Sandner, Philipp; … - 2015
patenting in individual countries and regions. We provide analyses from an international perspective, examining patents at the … the propensity to apply for patents is very high among US and Asian universities, while European universities lag behind …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014145916
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What induces firms to license foreign technologies? : international survey evidence
Dohse, Dirk; Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2018
The paper provides firm-level insights into the drivers of foreign technology licensing from the perspective of the licensee, using data across 114 nations. Drawing on the theoretical foundations related to knowledge spillovers, results show that manufacturing firms with own R&D capabilities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789274
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Licensing in the Shadow of Copyright
DiCola, Peter C.; Touve, David - 2015
Copyright offers protection to creative works, but new technologies put pressure on that protection. Copyright owners and technology firms negotiate over new ways of distributing and transmitting creative works. Understanding the shadow that copyright casts on private negotiations will allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014134728
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Chapter 48 Agricultural Innovation: Investments and Incentives
Wright, Brian D.; Pardey, Philip G.; Nottenburg, Carol; … - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2533-2603). 2007
Investments in R&D and agricultural innovations have been fundamental to long-term economic growth worldwide. But global resource allocation has been uneven, with some developing countries closing in on developed-world scientific capacities, others regaining ground lost over the past decade or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024076
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Software Patents and Open Source : The Battle Over Intellectual Property Rights
Layne-Farrar, Anne; Evans, David S. - 2012
In the wake of a series of court cases extending patents to software, open-source software proponents have proposed a … number of arguments for limiting or even eliminating software patents. In particular, they claim that the U.S. Patent and … Trademark Office has done a poor job of reviewing software patent applications, resulting in obvious, trivial patents. They also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029365
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The propensity to patent with horizontally differentiated products : an empirical investigation
Heger, Diana; Zaby, Alexandra - 2009
In this paper we empirically investigate the theoretical results obtained in Zaby (2009). From the theoretical model, which introduces the decision to patent into a setting with horizontally differentiated products we deduce several hypotheses and test these empirically. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921610
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The propensity to patent with vertically differentiated products : an empirical investigation
Heger, Diana; Zaby, Alexandra - 2009
This paper empirically investigates a firm’s propensity to patent. It thereby builds on a theoretical model on a firms' patenting decision in a market with vertically differentiated products. We deduce and empirically test several hypotheses from the theoretical results regarding patenting and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921617
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Restrictive clauses in East-West licensing trade : the case of Poland
Cieślik, Jerzy; Rapacki, Ryszard - 1981
The aim of this paper is to determine how contract conditions in licensing agreements between Poland and the industrialized market-economy countries influence the long-term effects of imports of modern technology. Analysis is confined to two essential aspects of this problem. The first concerns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454999
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How antitrust enforcement can spur innovation : bell labs and the 1956 consent decree
Watzinger, Martin; Fackler, Thomas; Nagler, Markus; … - 2017
We study the 1956 consent decree against the Bell System to investigate whether patents held by a dominant firm are … to license all its existing patents royalty-free. The compulsory licensing increased follow-on innovation building on … Bell patents by 17%. This effect is driven mainly by young and small companies. Yet, innovation increased only outside the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610914