Ascertaining whether patents encourage invention necessitates understanding the incentives inventors respond to. The … Industrial Revolution is hotly debated. This paper's contribution is to examine the incentives to patent, and the characteristics … of patentees, by observing the entire population of British patents granted up to the patent reforms of 1852. I find …

management of assignments, the various strategies followed by firms, and the effects of patents on technology transfer to the …

knowledge spillovers, as they serve as central actors of innovation networks and stimulate network activities. Whereas the … linkages between network embeddedness and innovation activities have been largely explored, the impact on patent quality in … of respective institutions within innovation networks thereby reinforces the radicalness of inventions. However, we do …

-in-differences regressions suggest that the increase in fees led to a weeding out of low-quality patents. About 16–17 per cent of patents in the … lowest quality decile were filtered out. The figure reaches 24–30 per cent for patents in the lowest quality quintile …

Biographical information on a sample of renowned U.S. inventors is combined with information on the patents they … enforce tradable assets in new technological knowledge. By facilitating access to such markets in technology, patents enhanced … their technological creativity, and their response to such incentives increased overall technological progress. For this …

reduces the incentives to exert effort in R&D activities. Then, drawing on the signaling role of patents highlighted by the … patentability standards at PTOs (Patent and Trademark Offices awarding so-called bad patents), not only "false innovators" have the … chance of being granted patents but also, and more interestingly, "true innovators" are forced to patent more intensively …

motivations to invent, and the actual use and economic value of the patents. …