. Our analysis suggests that social class, skills, and market orientation drove the demand for patents. Our research …

. Our analysis suggests that social class, skills, and market orientation drove the demand for patents. Our research …

Economic theory views patents as policy instruments aimed at fostering innovation and diffusion. Three major … implications are drawn regarding current policy debates. First, patents may not be the most effective means of protection for … requirements, such as novelty or non-obviousness, should be sufficiently stringent to avoid the grant of patents for inventions …

knowledge spillovers, as they serve as central actors of innovation networks and stimulate network activities. Whereas the … linkages between network embeddedness and innovation activities have been largely explored, the impact on patent quality in … of respective institutions within innovation networks thereby reinforces the radicalness of inventions. However, we do …

-year period; we include trademarks and industrial designs as well as patents to broaden measures of innovation output; and …What difference does government support of business R&D make to the rate of innovation? Addressing this important …

In this paper, I empirically study the effect of IEEE’s IPR policy change in 2015 on standard related innovation. I … the change. My results show that more restrictive patent policies at the SDO level decrease the innovation effort of firms …

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …

patents. Those jointly filed by industry and research institutions grew even faster. However, research institutions’ share in … patent applications remains low and their ratio of patents granted to applications is below that of industry. An econometric …

spatial patterns of industrial innovation in China during the 1990s. It is found that industrial innovation in China has been … innovation system in China is still fragmented …