the regional innovator network, promoting region-specific knowledge spillovers. Two data bases are applied. First, patent …

We study the innovation effects of the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons (AFMP), signed by Switzerland and the … EU in 1999. Using geocoded patent data, complemented by matched inventor-immigrant-census records, we identify a large … number of cross-border inventors (CBIs), commuters from neighbouring countries working in Swiss R&D labs. We show that …

It has been repeatedly shown that universities and public research institutes contribute to local innovation generation … empirical examinations are missing. We analyse the impact of universities and public research on regional innovation output … innovation generators or innovation facilitators. All analyses are conducted on German data. …

industry and government to cultivate the efficacy of South Korea’s national innovation system. The Corporate Helix model takes … nation’s technological catch-up to innovation-based growth. The cases of POSTECH and SKKU offer key propositions that a …

To study how governments can improve the quality of patent screening, we develop an integrative framework incorporating … four main policy instruments: patent office examination, pre- and post-grant fees, and challenges in the courts. We show …. Simulations of the model, calibrated on U.S. patent and litigation data, indicate that patenting is socially excessive and the …

questions. The economy consists of many industries and firms engaged in cumulative (step-by-step) innovation. IPR policy … past innovations. With full patent protection, followers can catch up to the leader in their industry either by making the … same innovation(s) themselves or by making some pre-specified payments to the technological leaders. We prove the existence …