for industrial creativity that can rival the northeast. This study shows that this viewpoint, based on patent activity, is …

enterprises (SMEs). In this paper, we use the number of patent applications as the measure of both the performance of the cluster …. First, participation in the cluster projects alone does not affect patent application. Rather, local firms collaborating …

This paper discusses the question: should universities patent their inventions or should not? The question is analyzed … university’s inventions commercialization. It is argued that the question should be “how” should universities patent their …

significantly increases patent applications. We use data from 1985 to 2000 on 101 Japanese companies. The parameter for the grant … lag was significantly negative in all equations. Therefore, reducing the grant lag increases patent applications. We also …

for process innovations being slighthly higher. For product innovations that involved patent applications we can identify …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use a dynamic model of optimal patent design and, in the presence of … earlier-expiring patent only chooses to proceed with R&D activates when the patent it holds expires if the expected discounted … models of patent design, the role of competitive fringe firms is discussed implicitly. The model presented in this research …