technologies. How will patent protection affect this process? In this paper we first review the evidence on the role of patents for … innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … externalities, implies that patent protection may not be the optimal instrument for encouraging innovation in this area, especially …

this topic are scarce. The OECD, together with the European Patent Office and the University of Tokyo, carried out a … target population was patent holders: 600 European firms and 1600 Japanese firms responded to the survey, in the second half … of 2007. The results show that patent licensing is widespread among patenting firms: around one company in five in Europe …

weight in the design of the patent system because patented inventions would have been disclosed anyway. Even the few legal …

pattern in green patent production. Specifically, we find that oil, gas, and energy-producing firms - firms with lower … key innovators in the United States’ green patent landscape. These energy producers produce more, and significantly higher …

pattern in green patent production. Specifically, we find that oil, gas, and energy producing firms – firms with lower … key innovators in the United States’ green patent landscape. These energy producers produce more, and significantly higher …