In this work, we develop and apply a methodology to estimate technology-specific R&D investments at the firm level and then use these to test some arguments that have become central in the innovation literature. In particular, we first combine R&D investments with patent data of the world top...

Diagnostic testing for COVID-19 is an important part of the management of the pandemic. A diagnostic testbased policy response assumes the existence of diagnostic kits on a large scale, their availability at the point of care, an efficient way to administer the tests to the economically and...

Patent boxes have been heavily debated for their role in corporate tax competition. This paper uses firm-level data for the period 2000-2011 for the top 2,000 corporate research and development (R&D) investors worldwide to consider the determinants of patent registration across a large sample of...