Patent protection was introduced for plant biotechnology in the United States in 1985, and it affected crops … crop-specific technology development, I find that the introduction of patent rights increased the development of novel … accompanied by positive spillover effects on innovation in certain non-biological agricultural technologies, and led to an …

licensing, and patent pools; and analyzes the development of Climate Innovation Centres, the Eco-Patent Commons, and …: Innovation 7. Climate Innovation Centres: Patent Law and Public Sector Licensing 8. The Eco-Patent Commons: Patent Pools … effects of climate change. This book charts the patent landscapes and legal conflicts emerging in a range of fields of …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …