. Citation information has been found to provide very useful information on the value of patents, although backward citation as a …

We explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent … holders. The paper focuses on those full-term German patents of the application year 1977 which were held by West German and U ….S. residents. The most valuable patents in our data account for a large fraction of the cumulative value over all observations …

possess this tacit knowledge, inventors may need to play an active role when patents are commercialized. We build on Arora … (1995) and model firm-inventor cooperation in the commercialization of a given invention. Tacit knowledge warrants inventor … is important for the successful commercialization of patents by using a detailed patent database. The database contains …

Ascertaining whether patents encourage invention necessitates understanding the incentives inventors respond to. The … of patentees, by observing the entire population of British patents granted up to the patent reforms of 1852. I find … of patentees. Inventors responded to demand-side conditions, and the system's expense did not hinder invention. …

responsible for more patents than immigrants from all but two countries (Germany and England). In total, we estimate that African … Americans invented more than 50,000 patents over the period. Thus, when freed of extreme political oppression, Black Americans …

the market. At the invention level, our findings confirm that patents from firms engaged in science are more frequently … science links at the invention level and indirect science links at the firm level to encounter these distinct positive effects … of science links. -- Innovation ; cooperation ; patents ; forward citation ; science ; industrial innovation …

We examine ownership patterns of German university-invented patents before and after the abolition of the "professors …-owned and firm-owned patents to university-owned patents, which becomes increasingly strong over the years. Differences in the …

Patents have long been regarded as the 'gold standard' of intellectual property protection. In "Little patents and big … patenting costs, patentability standards, and the fact that patents provide protection in competitive situations where secrecy … that patents are crucial to provide R&D incentives and is yet consistent with main empirical findings on the issue …

The paper compares academic and corporate patents in Germany to shed light on the geographical distribution of the … distance between inventors for patents invented in collaboration and give insights into the distance' s change over a time … period of 14 years. The distance between collaborating inventors of corporate patents exceeds that of inventors of academic …

least one invention, only 4,5% of the sample are engaged in commercialization activities. Therefore the vast majority of …