This essay is the introduction to a forthcoming volume entitled, Regulating Innovation: Competition Policy and Patent … relationship between regulation - both through competition policy and patent law - and innovation, and the corresponding …, this essay introduces the organizing themes of the volume. Innovation is critical to economic growth. While it is well …

We investigate the innovational determinants of “Patent Applications” in Europe. We use data from the European … Innovation Scoreboard-EIS of the European Commission for 36 countries in the period 2010-2019. We use Panel Data with Fixed … positive association with “Patent Applications” are “Human Resources” and “Intellectual Assets”, while the variables that show …

scientific theory. Patents on research tools can prevent widespread access to these technologies and thus inhibit downstream … "theorize around" dominant paradigms, thereby engaging in the alternative theory generation that drives profound scientific … patent term in order to best balance the normal scientific processes and alternate hypothesis generation that jointly enable …

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 …

(the CD index) that characterizes innovation in science and technology as either consolidating or disruptive. We challenge … the analysis to 2016 and account for a change in U.S. patent law that allows for citations to patent applications in … addition to patent grants, which is ignored by the authors in their analysis. We show that the number of highly disruptive …

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 … patentability and infringement theory and practice and their possible interpretation in a 3D printing context, a set of different …

climate change technologies. The article then describes six proposals for maximizing the innovation potential of the patent … 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 …

The first sale or patent exhaustion doctrine reflects the limited nature of patents. In Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG … Electronics, Inc., the Supreme Court reaffirmed the principle that the authorized sale of a patented item exhausts the patent as … to that item. However, in the context of self-replicating technology, it is unclear how the patent exhaustion/first sale …

a patented item exhausts patent protection as to that particular item. However, it is unclear how the patent exhaustion … rather than patent law should govern the patent holder’s rights in an object embodying self-replicating technology after an …

concentration upon innovation, focusing on robust findings, questions of interpretation, and the identification of major gaps. We … also consider the more modest literature that considers the effect on innovation of firm characteristics other than size …