A frequently made claim in the innovation literature is that important inventions involve the transfer of new knowledge … knowledge acquired from outside each patent’s technological domain. Our results do not seem to support the claim above …

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 …

development through competition. We provide a novel detailed empirical study of the extent and timing of designing around patent … Edison’s incandescent lamp patent in 1891-1894 stimulated a surge of patenting. We studied the specific design features of … the lamps described in these lamp patents and compared them to Edison’s claimed invention to create a count of non …

,786 public corporations, and measures of both patent quality and patent value, we find that, while average invention value rises … with size, average invention quality declines, suggesting, per our model, that the large firm advantage is not due to …

received over their careers, and employed to highlight the implications of patent institutions for markets in inventions and … for democratization. The United States deliberately created a patent system that differed from existing European systems … in ways that significantly affected the course of technological change. Patent rights in the U.S. helped to define and …

Innovation is part idea generation and part development. We build a model of "innovating-by-doing," whereby ideas come … to practitioners. Successful innovation requires that practitioners' ideas be developed through costly effort. Our model ….S. Medicare program on medical equipment innovation. Our model’s structure allows us to infer the Medicare program's aggregate …

increase mirroring the social cost of carbon. We find that the induced clean innovation response primarily comes from existing …

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, all countries having patent systems required patentable inventions to be … nonobvious. The nonobviousness requirement is considered to be so central to patent policy that it has frequently been called the … doctrine of invention, inventive step or simply the patentability requirement. This Article traces how this defining doctrine …