performance, in particular with respect to innovations that are new to the market. At the invention level, our findings confirm … impact. We show that it is crucial to distinguish between direct science links at the invention level and indirect science …

address concerns that these results are an artifact of our use of patent counts by demonstrating similar patterns when other …

to patent. Our study records how brewery innovators pursued a wide variety of highly distinct appropriability strategies … strategies could co-exist, although some brewery insiders maintaineda suspicion of the promoters of patent technologies which … could support trade in inventions even without the use of the patent system. …

This paper summarizes a number of studies which use patent data to examine different aspects of technological change … estimation of the value of patent rights based on European patent renewal data; and describes the use of patent data to estimate … the importance of R&D spillovers. It concludes that patent data represent a valuable resource for the analysis of …

and patent productivity of the respective regional innovation systems (RIS). The empirical analysis is for nine German …

academic patents using German professor patents linked to patent opposition data from the European Patent Office (EPO). Patent … patent value, asymmetric information and diverging expectations between the opposition parties, the likelihood of a … applied by owners of potentially rival technologies. -- academic inventors ; intellectual property rights ; patent oppositions …