This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering … show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect of FDI on domestic innovation when the intellectual property … on why developing countries should encourage FDI and strengthen the IPR regime together to enhance domestic innovation …

refocus the debate and analyses the economic issues, impacts and implications of the innovation clusters policy. To do this … cooperation. We assume that innovation cluster "potentiates", by a synergistic action, the beneficial effect of each of these …

The study analyzes the role played by technological determinants, using the approach of National System of Innovation …

Patent data provide an increasingly used means to analyse innovation performance worldwide including in countries with … patent data for measuring and analysing innovation in narrow technological fields, such as many environment …-related technologies. To improve cross-country comparability of patent statistics, the paper advocates the use of indicators based on …

We use a panel of historical patent data covering a large range of countries over the past century to study the … evolution of innovation across time and space and its effect on productivity. We document a substantial rise of international … knowledge spillovers as measured by patent citations since the 1990s. This rise is mostly accounted for by an increase in …

This paper analyzes externalities of patent box regimes in Europe. Tax reductions in foreign affiliates of a firm that … specific characteristics of patent box regimes, we show that patent box regimes without nexus requirements for tax …-efficient reallocation of patent profits induce positive spillovers within multinational groups. The implementation of a patent box in a …

EPO Worldwide Patent Statistical Database PATSTAT. Based on the final dataset, covering about 1,700 world’s top corporate … R&D investors and their patenting activity, we find that about one-fifth focus their patent-relevant R&D activity in …-based technological advantages to expand their market penetration (HBE strategy). With patent data from the late 2010s, we find a further …

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

This paper decomposes the R&D-patent relationship at the industry level to shed light on the sources of the worldwide … surge in patent applications. The empirical analysis is based on a unique dataset that includes 5 patent indicators computed … for 18 industries in 19 countries covering the period from 1987 to 2005. The analysis shows that variations in patent …