. The more patient or the less risk averse the households, the longer and narrower the optimal patents. …

This paper tests a number of hypotheses on the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect … innovation. While previous studies have often considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate …

patents; however, most patent databases contain no information on whether patents have been commercialized, i.e., whether … commercialization variables. For this purpose, I use a unique database on Swedish patents that includes information on whether patents …

creation alliances lead to more valuable patents as they receive significantly more forward citations per patent. Knowledge …

possess this tacit knowledge, inventors may need to play an active role when patents are commercialized. We build on Arora … is important for the successful commercialization of patents by using a detailed patent database. The database contains … inventors and external firms are often crucial for the successful commercialization of patents. …

The purpose of this study is to present a unique database on commercialized patents and to illustrate how it can be … used to analyze the commercialization process of patents. The dataset is based on a survey of Swedish patents owned by … commercialization not found anywhere else, including whether, when and how (acquisition, licensing, existing or new firm) patents were …

This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and … firms, in terms of patents and trademarks, and we study whether the two instruments for protecting IP exhibit …) between the patents and trademarks owned by the same firm and we then investigate whether such concordance exert any effect on …