.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector …

.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector …

or stifle innovation. Using three distinct sources of variation to identify rising trade exposure, we provide a causal …-level and technology class-level patent production. Accompanying this fall in innovation, global employment, sales …The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze …

.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector …

or stifle innovation. Using three distinct sources of variation to identify rising trade exposure, we provide a causal …-level and technology class-level patent production. Accompanying this fall in innovation, global employment, sales …The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze …

of new drug patents using two quasi-experimental approaches: one based on changes in patent laws and another on the …The debate on whether COVID-19 vaccine patents are slowing down the pace of vaccination and the recovery from the … crisis has brought the optimal design of pharmaceutical patent policy to the fore. In this paper we evaluate patent policy in …

We document the occurrence of process claims in granted U.S. patents over the last century. Using novel data on the … type of independent patent claims, we show an increase in the annual share of process claims of about 25 percentage points … (from below 10% in 1920). This rise in process intensity is not limited to a few patent classes but can be observed across a …

Is there any evidence that innovation and technological progress are contained by competition and fostered by monopoly … that this is not the case.On the contrary, using both patent statistics and productivity growth as alternative measures of … innovation and technical change, we observe faster technological advances in more competitive markets. These results are robust …