Ascertaining whether patents encourage invention necessitates understanding the incentives inventors respond to. The … Industrial Revolution is hotly debated. This paper's contribution is to examine the incentives to patent, and the characteristics … of patentees, by observing the entire population of British patents granted up to the patent reforms of 1852. I find …

knowledge spillovers, as they serve as central actors of innovation networks and stimulate network activities. Whereas the … linkages between network embeddedness and innovation activities have been largely explored, the impact on patent quality in … of respective institutions within innovation networks thereby reinforces the radicalness of inventions. However, we do …

reduces the incentives to exert effort in R&D activities. Then, drawing on the signaling role of patents highlighted by the … patentability standards at PTOs (Patent and Trademark Offices awarding so-called bad patents), not only "false innovators" have the … chance of being granted patents but also, and more interestingly, "true innovators" are forced to patent more intensively …

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

Increasing evidence indicates that a large share of granted patents are ''undeserved'' because they do not meet the …, introduced the post-grant validity challenge at the United States Patents and Trademarks Office (USPTO). This procedure allows … any third party to question granted patents, possibly leading to patent revocation or scope reduction. This paper aims to …

Patent studies inform our understanding of innovation. Any study of patenting involves classifying patent data … according to a chosen taxonomy. The literature has produced numerous taxonomies, which means patents are being classified …

This paper investigates the relevance for innovation of international exhibitions. While the first of these events, i … innovation, and their relationship to the traditional patent measure, should be better qualified. To do so, this paper performs …. It matches a new database, built from the catalogue of this event, with patents granted in Italy, revealing substantial …

Patent studies inform our understanding of innovation. Any study of patenting involves classifying patent data … according to a chosen taxonomy. The literature has produced numerous taxonomies, which means patents are being classified …