entrepreneurial effort allocated to high-quality invention projects. Using data on patents granted to small firms and individuals, we …

entry and we also detect an impact of the prizes on the quality of contemporaneous patents, especially when prize categories …

This paper investigates the relationship between patents and research and development expenditures using new …

patents make R&D more attractive, but the effect on static efficiency is nonmonotonic. In a North.South model, where only the …

that patents themselves are complex documents that are difficult even for patent experts to interpret. In addition, issued … patents are the result of an often long and complicated negotiation between applicant and patent office (in the United States … United States patents embedded within a comprehensive patent citation network to measure the importance of those patents …

previous measures of patent scope (i.e. the number of patent classes, the number of citations made by future patents, and the … then demonstrate the power of this instrument by examining standard-essential patents. We show that an (exogenous …) diminishment of patent scope leads to patents being much less likely to be declared standard-essential …

development of patents by students who had acquired a STEM degree. First, the policy changed the direction of their innovation …