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 …

innovative target companies. We also find that green acquirors (i.e., firms with green patents) are more inclined to enter into … enhances their post-acquisition green innovation performances. Our results also show an increase in green acquisitions after … Agreement do not show any significant impact on their post-acquisition innovation performances, raising concerns related to …

patent standards are low, firms build "thickets" of patents, especially incumbent firms in mature industries. When they …Patent race models assume that an innovator wins the only patent covering a product. But when technologies are complex … assert these patents, innovators are forced to share rents under cross-licenses, making R&D incentives sub-optimal. On the …