This paper is an empirical investigation on the increasing phenomenon of patent litigation. More precisely, the paper aims at assessing several determinants likely to influence the occurrence of patent oppositions against all European granted patents to Belgian applicants over the period...

Based on an original and recent representative sample of 130 large EU-based R&D corporations, this paper empirically investigates the main factors explaining the favourite (national or international) location choice for R&D activities. The main findings suggest that public support to R&D and...

This analytical country report is one of a series of annual ERAWATCH reports produced for EU Member States and Countries Associated to the Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the European Union (FP7). The main objective of the ERAWATCH Annual Country Reports is to characterise and assess...

This report presents the findings of the fifth survey on trends in business R&D investment. These are based on 185 responses of mainly larger companies from the 1000 EU-based companies in the 2008 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard. These 185 companies are responsible for R&D investment...

This 2010 "EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard" (the Scoreboard) presents information on the world's top 1400 companies ranked by their investments in research and development (R&D). It contains data drawn from the latest available companies' accounts, i.e. the fiscal year 2009. These are...

Innovation in the European Union remains weak according to a number of key ‘input’ indicators, especially R&D investment by the business sector, and there are relatively few signs of progress. From a firm-level perspective, Europe’s innovation gap relative to the US results from an...

Europe?s lackluster capacity to generate growth and particularly productivity growth is for a significant part attributable to a subdued capacity to innovate. Policies aimed at boosting growth through research and development have not delivered. Private R&D intensity remains to date low (and...

This paper examines the sources of Europe's lagging business R&D performance relative to the US, particularly the role played by missing young leading innovators in high technology intensive sectors in Europe. It investigates through econometric analysis differences in the rates of return to R&D...

This paper investigates the importance and scope of legal and administrative barriers In Belgium as compared to its main trade partners within the framework of the recent Bolkestein directive proposal. After a short review of the literature on the impacts of economic deregulation on...

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