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Critics claim that patent screening is ineffective, granting low-quality patents that impose unnecessary social costs. We develop an integrated framework, involving patent office examination, fees, and endogenous validity challenges in the courts, to study patent screening both theoretically and...
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constraints or the promotion of follow-on innovation. …
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signaling and attaining benefits that allow for better future performance (i.e., the real benefits explanation). Prior studies … cannot provide evidence of signaling because they do not control for the real benefits explanation. Our research design … enables us to control for the real benefits explanation because we can identify potential signaling firms within the sample of …
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In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from …
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of the contributions of different innovation linkages to innovation deserves more attention. Are the different innovation … linkages equally complementary to research inputs in fostering innovation? This paper addresses the contributions of different … innovation linkages to innovation, across two different measures of innovation. We find that a broader index of innovation …
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set of opportunities for innovation in agricultural biotechnologies. Moreover, the institutional, regulatory and …
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