diffusion decreases both in technology imitation among innovators and in technology adoption by entrepreneurs. Patents are an …

European multinational corporations (MNCs) and employing the relative share of patents held by an MNC as a measure for patent … concentration shapes an MNC's incentives to shift income via patents. Our findings also indicate that the effectiveness of tax …

choose to maximize their IP protection can increase the number of foreign patents by almost 10%. …

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 …

not account for heterogeneity of patenting activities ranging from university patents to corporate patents. While the … publishing distinguishing between different types of patents for a large sample of professors active in Germany. Our results show … that, while university patents as well as patents assigned to not-for-profit institutions complement publication quantity …

There is a growing literature that aims at assessing the private value of knowledge assets and patents. It has been … shown that patents and their quality as measured by citations received by future patents contribute significantly to the … forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of …

attracting patents, mostly because of their favourable tax treatment, especially for high-quality patents. Patent boxes with a … large scope in terms of tax base definition also have stronger effects on the location of patents. The size of the tax …

Classical patent literature assumes that patents grant well-defined legal rights to exclude others from practicing an … and the certification effect of patents which signals the ventures' 'quality' to investors. If the decision about patent … start-up companies are reluctant to launch new products if patents are pending. Further, pending patents attract risk …