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 …

. Our analysis suggests that social class, skills, and market orientation drove the demand for patents. Our research …

. Our analysis suggests that social class, skills, and market orientation drove the demand for patents. Our research …

. Our analysis suggests that social class, skills, and market orientation drove the demand for patents. Our research …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …