Using an internationally linked patent database, this paper compares the types of R&D activities undertaken by … involved in some technology‐driven R&D activities; European firms are inclined toward market‐driven R&D, while Japanese firms …

Innovation processes within corporations increasingly tap into international technology sources, yet little is known … types of international technology sourcing activities using survey information on German companies complemented with … information from the European Patent Office. German firms with inventors based in the US disproportionately benefit from R …

that current European patent law holds substantial potential for technology-specific application. Even though the European …In their animated book 'The Patent Crisis and How the Courts can Solve It', Dan Burk and Mark Lemley give an account of … industry specific differences in the patent system from both a legal and economic perspective. The present article attempts to …

: USA, Japan and Europe. In each economic area, we use information from two international patent systems to construct the … technological proximity for 240 international firms. In particular, we select firms’ patents from United States Patent and … Trademarks Office (USPTO) data and European Patent Office (EPO) data. In order to compute the technological proximity, we follow …