options of diagnostic testing for known Coronaviruses with information retrieved from the corpus of patent documents. More … specifically, we extract keywords from this field of expertise and we query these keywords in patent application filings. We …

relationship. We exploit a rich longitudinal matched patent-firm data set on the population of large firms that filed 4IR patents … identify 4IR patents, we use a novel two-step procedure proposed by EPO (2020), based on Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC …IR patents and labour and total factor productivity. We also find that firms with a long history in 4IR patent filings …

The performance of market based environmental regulation is affected by patents and vice versa. This interaction is … studied for a new type of innovation where new technologies reduce emissions of a specific pollutant but at the same time … cause a new type of damage. A robust finding is that the efficiency of permits is affected by monopoly pricing of the patent …

A temporary change in pay to employed inventors around the time of patent application has been observed in a number of … who hire workers in R&D functions to make product innovations. The innovation process consists of distinct phases … separated by a patent application. Firms compete to attract workers, and workers can transfer part of the generated new …