show how patent regimes can contribute more efficiently to innovation and economic performance. Topics covered include the … links between patents and economic performance, changes in patent regimes, patents and entrepreneurship, patents and …

method, a 1 % increase in patent per employee brings together a 0.245 % increase in TFP. The second analysis validates this … result as it suggests patent per employee growth Granger causes TFP to grow, while the inverse is not true. Furthermore, 0 ….35 % of the variance in the forecast error of TFP changes is explained by a unit shock in patent per employee growth …

Innovation increases companies' competitive advantage and spurs nations' economic growth. Businesses and public … research organisations now patent more inventions than they did just a few years ago, and the number of patents filed in Europe …