This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …

property. It is organized around the two principal objectives of intellectual property law: promoting innovation and aesthetic … creativity (focusing on patent, trade secret, and copyright protection) and protecting integrity of the commercial marketplace … protection and other means of addressing the economic problem (such as public funding and prizes in the case of patent and …

survey conducted to beneficiaries, this study reconstructs the progress made by the patent applicants. The results show, on …

set of opportunities for innovation in agricultural biotechnologies. Moreover, the institutional, regulatory and …

This paper analyzes how injunctions relate to patent hold-up problems. To this end, we present a simple model of … licensing negotiations between a patent holder and a downstream firm in the shadow of litigation. More specifically, we consider … the situation in which an injunction is granted as a matter of course if a patent is found valid and infringed upon in …

Patents are widely used in the literature as a measure of firm-level innovation. It is regarded that patents improve a …

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

exploitation of their patent, alleging several reasons for that. -- entrepreneurship ; patent rights ; and innovation …This paper entitled "Patent as a motivation of starting a new entrepreneurial activity of high potential" based on a … patents by the inventors and tries to answer the question whether the patent can be a strong motive for the patentee to start …