intellectual property right design. We derive conclusions in the simplest, one-time innovation, case then investigate how these … optimal procurement of innovation are considered. Finally, we sketch enforcement and competition policy issues. …

, patent citations and new product announcements. I posit that each of these signs of corporate innovation provides a noisy …Corporate innovation propels both company performance and economic growth. Yet, measuring corporate innovation proves … eliminates useful information, suggesting that all of the observable signals about corporate innovation should be included in …

innovation that illustrates an endogenous process of internal competition. This often political and contentious process can have …

This article compares the relationship between patent quality and patent value in discrete and cumulative innovation … link between patent quality and value in discrete innovation, this link is much weaker in cumulative innovation …. Using factor analysis and a set of various commonly used patent quality indicators including claims, citations and family …

between imitation and innovation. Using US patent data for the period 1977-2005, we find that there are inverted U …-shaped relationships between the degree of industry-level technological imitation and industry-level innovation activities and between the … degree of industry-level technological imitation and the value of firm-level innovation. Our results suggest that positive …

patentability standards at PTOs (Patent and Trademark Offices awarding so-called bad patents), not only “false innovators” have the … chance of being granted patents but also, and more interestingly, “true innovators” are forced to patent more intensively … distortions caused by bad patents. Moreover, we show that introducing a two-tiered patent system is unlikely to improve market …

Until the twenty one century, innovation and ideas have been a valuable asset to accelerate the process of … technological catch-up, sustain productivity growth and competitiveness. To determine where innovation is standing up, countries and … organizations need to adapt innovation capacity to overcome their economies' defeats for the purpose of boosting the growth and …

The recent surge of patent disputes plays an important role in discouraging firms from entering new technology domains … at EPO between 2000 and 2015, we construct a new measure of litigiousness using patent opposition data. We find that the … degree of litigiousness and the density of patent thickets negatively affect the likelihood of firms entering new TDs. Across …

otherwise visible to society. We develop a structural model of initial and follow-on innovation to determine the effects of such … a shift in disclosure on overall welfare in industries characterized by cumulative innovation. We find that while … significant decline in follow-on innovation. …

performance to examine the influences on reputation for technological innovation. Using patent, financial and consumer data our …Firms strategically promote, foster and pursue a reputation for technological innovation. Yet, present research did not … (citation intensity) is linked to reputation for technological innovation. Counter-intuitively, our results provide evidence …