This paper analyses the development of universities' patent applications in Germany before and after the abolition of … the 'professors' privilege' in 2002. By means of a database with all patent applications of German universities with … legislation is found only for universities without patent activities in the past. This indicates the importance of collecting …

The paper studies the patent productivity of scientists over their life cycle. The incentives for patenting and for … at the end of the scientific career. In contrast, the analytical model given here suggests an increase of patent … productivity over the life time. In the empirical part the patents of nearly 1000 German patent active professors are analyzed. The …

different R&D collaboration networks across Europe. These networks cover different types of knowledge creation, namely co-patent … different types of R&D networks, we use data from the OECD Regpat database to capture cross-region co-patent networks, the AIT …

stems from connecting previously unrelated technologies opening up whole new functionalities and applications. Using patent …

are key players (patent hunters) who consistently identify and develop them. Although initially overlooked, these late … new product launches. Patent hunters, as early detectors and adopters of these late-blooming patents, are also associated … instrument for patent hunting, and find strong evidence that these benefits are causally due to patent hunting. The rents …

technological environment and offers a modified patent-citation-based criterion for measuring the pace of technological development …

This paper investigates the role of patent protection in the global investment decisions of multinational firms. Using … comprehensive firm-level panel data of German multinationals, we investigate how changes in a host country’s patent protection … influence the extensive and intensive margin of foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions. We isolate the effect of patent …

Technology leaders protecting a technological headstart with a patent are provided with a powerful legal measure to … restrict market entry. We analyze the impact of knowledge spillover on the decision to patent and the effect of varying patent … lead is protected by a patent only in industries with high knowledge spillover, and that (ii) patent breadth can mitigate …