Although the use of patent indicators in statistics has been under discussion for a long time, there are surprisingly … very few studies devoted to explaining the use of patent indicators as performance indicators in performance-based research … performance indicators. However, there is still no established distinction in the literature between patent indicators used in …

quality) than their European counterparts after patent rights for software inventions were introduced. We then introduce a …

postdoctoral scholars contribute equally to patent activity or whether there is a differential effect depending upon visa status …. We find patent counts relate positively and significantly to the number of faculty, number of PhD students and number of …

The patent system gives the courts discretion to tailor patentability standards flexibly across technologies to provide … practical, non-research-based use at the time patent protection is sought. The fear is that an early-stage patent on a research … innovation. Yet, denying patents on research inputs can frustrate patent law’s broad goal to protect and promote advances in …

national incentives for patent protection? What is the rationale for international coordination over patent policies? Given …

related to specific technologies are much larger than the costs of spurring any kind of patent. Due to geographic spillovers …

, an overall increase in combined public third-party funding of universities and technical colleges affects regional patent …

This paper considers the prospect of a government patent buyout in a model of endogenous growth. To this end, the … shows that in this set-up, patent buyout by the government can lead to higher level of welfare without lowering an economy …