This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and … firms, in terms of patents and trademarks, and we study whether the two instruments for protecting IP exhibit …) between the patents and trademarks owned by the same firm and we then investigate whether such concordance exert any effect on …

2003-2010 to explore the extent to which changes in the patent stock are associated with flows of capital and labour to …

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 …

main dataset covers their intellectual properties, patents and trademarks, filed between 2005 and 2012. The paper extends …

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 …

Innovation has a role to play to mitigate water-related risks and to support the provision of water services on which … our well-being and sustainable development depend. Water-related innovation originate in a wide range of countries, with … different levels of ambition. They disseminate at different scales globally. This paper uses patent data to document trends in …

This paper provides first empirical evidence of the joint effects that innovation strategies and human resource …-innovators and of firms pursuing relatively simple innovation strategies, centered around the acquisition of embodied technology. For …

patent applications remains low and their ratio of patents granted to applications is below that of industry. An econometric …. 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 to the European Patent Office, with the top five (Tokyo, Seoul, San Francisco, Higashiosaka and Paris … technology patent applications are more concentrated in top cities than applications in other technology fields. In the United … States, which has led digital technology deployment, the concentration of patent applications in top cities increased more …

This paper explores the role of green innovation in attracting venture capital (VC) financing. We use a unique dataset … that matches information on VC transactions, companies' balance sheet variables and data on patented innovation at the firm … patents at the firm level, we show that green innovators are more likely to receive VC funding than firms without green …