This paper considers the prospect of a government patent buyout in a model of endogenous growth. To this end, the … shows that in this set-up, patent buyout by the government can lead to higher level of welfare without lowering an economy …

supplemental information on IP litigation and patent portfolios. The rich survey information regarding firms’ general innovation …We contribute to the economic literature on patent litigation by taking a new perspective. In the past, scholars mostly … focused on specific litigation cases at the patent level and related technological characteristics to the event of litigation …

. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …' successful patent applications. The last chapter describes sector-level input-output relationships in eleven European economies …

inverse U-shaped relationship between patent strength and growth: moderate levels of patent protection can stimulate growth …

An innovative firm chooses strategically whether to patent its process innovation or rely on secrecy. By doing so, the … firm manages its rival’s beliefs about the size of the innovation, and affects the incentives in the product market … an innovative firm with unknown costs and probabilistic patent validity. Increasing the number of firms (degree of …