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 …

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 …

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 …

investments in innovation. The implementation of R&D tax credit schemes, however, varies across countries. The empirical research … on the effectiveness of R&D tax incentives suggests that the strength of company responses (in R&D expenditures) to more … generous tax incentives substantially differ across countries. We use data from 25 OECD countries, collected from 2010 to 2018 …

quantitative patent targets (e.g., for patent applications and patents granted) overshadows the type of benchmarking that better … underlying inventions – i.e., their ability to be transformed into something useful and thus constitute innovation. And this is …-think these approaches as ways to stimulate innovation in China …

This paper proposes a search strategy for photovoltaic patents which allows to distinguish the photovoltaic system into …

partially meant to stimulate patents and "indigenous innovation." However, the analysis in this paper discusses how some of … these policies in effect can actually discourage quality patents, and highest-quality patents in particular, and related … innovation …

in where environmental law has failed to efficiently provide greater incentives for environmental innovation. A patent … not face efficient incentives for environmental innovation - a market failure that patent rewards can ameliorate. Along …Despite numerous and diverse efforts, environmental law generally fails to promote technological innovation with …

and innovation highly cumulative. Opponents suggest the same reforms have weakened intellectual property rights and … curtailed innovation. After reviewing the legal background and relevant economic theory, we examine patenting, R&D spending … in patent policy have harmed the American innovation system …