The paper studies the patent productivity of scientists over their life cycle. The incentives for patenting and for … productivity over the life time. In the empirical part the patents of nearly 1000 German patent active professors are analyzed. The … empirical findings support the theoretical prediction that patent productivity does not decline for older scientists. …

We explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent …-Maddala and log normal distributions, the log normal appears to provide the best fit to our patented invention value data. …

The patent system is a central tool in innovation policy. The prospect of monopolistic pricing conferred by patent … markups for patent-protected products. Using an original dataset that links a broad range of consumer products to the patents … that protect them, we study the impact of patent protection on product prices. The empirical strategy exploits exogenous …

We explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent …-Maddala and log normal distributions, the log normal appears to provide the best fit to our patented invention value data. …

identifying assumptions. Second, it presents estimates of the effect of patent protection on the depreciation rate. Results … suggest that the depreciation rate is in the 2–7 per cent range. Inventions for which a patent is granted are associated with …