motivations to invent, and the actual use and economic value of the patents. …

quantitative patent targets (e.g., for patent applications and patents granted) overshadows the type of benchmarking that better … underlying inventions – i.e., their ability to be transformed into something useful and thus constitute innovation. And this is …-think these approaches as ways to stimulate innovation in China. …

debates, in order to analyse these in relation to existing needs for action, spatial context conditions and various innovation … secure rural basic service provision, combinations of different forms of innovation are often necessary, so that technical …

debates, in order to analyse these in relation to existing needs for action, spatial context conditions and various innovation … secure rural basic service provision, combinations of different forms of innovation are often necessary, so that technical …

Institutions of higher education are considered as an important source of innovation. Consequently, big efforts are … factors affect the innovation and knowledge transfer activities of male and female academics. We show that Gender differences … position) affect such innovation transfer activities. While women generate fewer inventions than men, the fulltime employed …

. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for …This paper analyses the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on pharmaceutical innovation in a panel of … to patent at the EPO. Results show that, in the short-run, IPR stimulate innovation. The effect for developing countries …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

The debate on whether COVID-19 vaccine patents are slowing down the pace of vaccination and the recovery from the … of new drug patents using two quasi-experimental approaches: one based on changes in patent laws and another on the … pharmaceutical patents. …

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …

of IPRs to common archetypes of sustainable innovation and I discuss the motives why companies might file patents …As sustainable innovation becomes a strategy for companies to gain competitive advantage, the question of how to profit … from sustainable innovation becomes central. Surprisingly, little research exists on the appropriation strategies of …