This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and …

China has surpassed the United States in patent applications and has become world leader. Strong patenting activity … by electronics manufacturers. State-owned firms spend more on R&D per patent, but hold fewer patents per researcher than … patent holders. Furthermore, the paper examines what drives patenting activity. Higher R&D spending by the firm and higher …

Intellectual property protection mechanisms (IPPMs) are critical to fostering innovation and their relevance has grown …

Scholars examining the effect of knowledge spillovers on R&D and innovation all agree on one thing-there is a strong …, such as the type of spillovers (horizontal, vertical, or from other sources), the level of appropriability , the type of … spillovers is ultimately context-specific, we analyse the differences between male-owned and female-owned young entrepreneurial …

. Our evidence, which builds on a database that matches research institutions to a sample of their patent applications …, indicates patent applications to the European Patent Office (EPO) filed by research institutions grew faster than industry … patent applications remains low and their ratio of patents granted to applications is below that of industry. An econometric …

Patent boxes have been heavily debated for their role in corporate tax competition. This paper uses firm-level data for … determinants of patent registration across a large sample of countries. Importantly, we disentangle the effects of corporate income … taxation from the tax advantage of patent boxes. We also exploit a new and original dataset on patent box features such as the …