Biographical information on a sample of renowned U.S. inventors is combined with information on the patents they … enforce tradable assets in new technological knowledge. By facilitating access to such markets in technology, patents enhanced … their technological creativity, and their response to such incentives increased overall technological progress. For this …

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

Biographical information on a sample of renowned U.S. inventors is combined with information on the patents they … enforce tradable assets in new technological knowledge. By facilitating access to such markets in technology, patents enhanced … their technological creativity, and their response to such incentives increased overall technological progress. For this …

. I analyze the impact of accelerated examination of 4IR patents on the patent examination period and the patent grant …

describes incentives to enter technology areas characterized by varying technological opportunity, complexity of technology, and …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

innovation in these cities. …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the …. Citation information has been found to provide very useful information on the value of patents, although backward citation as a … surveys such as the “innovation survey” of firms and the inventor survey. They have deepened our understanding of the …

China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …