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 …

identification of a firm's minimum size, a threshold needed to formally protect an innovation by legal means. Below this minimum size …

One of the major reasons why inventors are awarded patents by governments is they encourage R&D investments and … commercialization of inventions. If the patent holder commercializes his invention, he has stronger incentives to retain the patent. The … purpose here is to empirically analyze the relationship between commercialization and the renewal of patents. At the same time …

that patents themselves are complex documents that are difficult even for patent experts to interpret. In addition, issued … patents are the result of an often long and complicated negotiation between applicant and patent office (in the United States … United States patents embedded within a comprehensive patent citation network to measure the importance of those patents …

One of the major reasons why inventors are awarded patents by governments is they encourage R&D investments and … commercialization of inventions. If the patent holder commercializes his invention, he has stronger incentives to retain the patent. The … purpose here is to empirically analyze the relationship between commercialization and the renewal of patents. At the same time …

identification of a firm's minimum size, a threshold needed to formally protect an innovation by legal means. Below this minimum size …

investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and … jobs. While Ireland has made good progress towards building up its scientific capabilities, innovation capacity remains … effective, the innovation strategy should be simplified, with a drastic reduction in the number of government agencies involved …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … terms of gains for innovation performance, but also show that collaboration has decreasing and even negative returns on … product innovation if its intensity increases above a certain threshold. In particular, costs start outweighing benefits if a …

innovation premium among large firms. A battery of tests shows that this innovation premium among small firms is explained by … that attribute higher returns to innovation to investor underreaction. We argue that an innovation premium exists among … small firms, but not large firms, because small innovators focus more on risky product innovation and rely more on …

In this article we investigate the determinants of SMEs Innovation in Europe. We use data from the European Innovation …