is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

Is there any evidence that innovation and technological progress are contained by competition and fostered by monopoly … that this is not the case.On the contrary, using both patent statistics and productivity growth as alternative measures of … innovation and technical change, we observe faster technological advances in more competitive markets. These results are robust …

innovation system more closely on private funding and markets, and thus on the acquisition of patents at the front end of the … coming innovation pipeline. The choice to rely on private markets and patents is highly debatable. But it is certain to … climate change technologies. The article then describes six proposals for maximizing the innovation potential of the patent …

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 …

for all patents granted in England in the period 1700-1850. Our findings indicate that macroinventions did not exhibit any …

Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central … us to rethink patent law. The paper splits up this question by looking at two facets in more depth – patentability and …/consumers). The paper concludes that the wide uptake of 3D printing does not fundamentally challenge the premises of patent law. 3D …

I provide empirical evidence that quality-adjusted patents can identify technological innovation in small and medium …-sized enterprises. Survey data on commercialization of patents is related to patent quality indicators (patent renewal, patent family … correlations of the patent value indicators with technological innovation are noisy, this study provides stronger empirical support …

The recent surge of patent disputes plays an important role in discouraging firms from entering new technology domains … (TDs). Using a large-scale dataset combining data from the EPO-PATSTAT database and ORBIS-IP and containing patents applied … at EPO between 2000 and 2015, we construct a new measure of litigiousness using patent opposition data. We find that the …

This paper proposes a search strategy for photovoltaic patents which allows to distinguish the photovoltaic system into …- trajectory. The USA focus on the established thin-film sub-trajectory and inventive activity in Germany focuses on module …