From a firm’s perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand …, innovative performance is an important driver of profitability and growth. On the other hand, investments in innovation suffer … firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent …

industry level the impact of energy prices on green innovation activities. Our econometric models show that energy prices and … green innovation activities are positively related and that energy prices have a significantly positive impact on the ratio … energy prices of the previous five years results in a 2.7% and 4.5% increase of the number of green patents and the ratio of …

Institutions of higher education are considered as an important source of innovation. Consequently, big efforts are … factors affect the innovation and knowledge transfer activities of male and female academics. We show that Gender differences … position) affect such innovation transfer activities. While women generate fewer inventions than men, the fulltime employed …

. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for …This paper analyses the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on pharmaceutical innovation in a panel of … to patent at the EPO. Results show that, in the short-run, IPR stimulate innovation. The effect for developing countries …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

The debate on whether COVID-19 vaccine patents are slowing down the pace of vaccination and the recovery from the … of new drug patents using two quasi-experimental approaches: one based on changes in patent laws and another on the … pharmaceutical patents. …

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …

of IPRs to common archetypes of sustainable innovation and I discuss the motives why companies might file patents …As sustainable innovation becomes a strategy for companies to gain competitive advantage, the question of how to profit … from sustainable innovation becomes central. Surprisingly, little research exists on the appropriation strategies of …

This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering … show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect of FDI on domestic innovation when the intellectual property … on why developing countries should encourage FDI and strengthen the IPR regime together to enhance domestic innovation …

potentially lessen incentives for innovation and on abuse of dominance/single firm exclusionary practices in IP-intensive network … importance for economic advancement and prosperity, having a direct bearing on innovation, growth and the diffusion of new …