This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering … show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect of FDI on domestic innovation when the intellectual property …

energy R&D expenditures. Technological innovation is measured using patent counts for specific technologies related to energy … increase the likelihood to file additional patents by about 3%. In contrast, energy prices have no significant effect on the …

Aghion, Van Reenen and Zingales (2013) find that institutional ownership causes an increase in innovation as measured … ownership and innovation is robust in 22% of robustness checks. On average, 2nd stage z-scores were just 42.7% of the original …

diffusion decreases both in technology imitation among innovators and in technology adoption by entrepreneurs. Patents are an …

We document the occurrence of process claims in granted U.S. patents over the last century. Using novel data on the … broad spectrum of technologies. Process intensity varies by applicant type: companies file more process-intense patents than … individuals, and U.S. applicants file more process-intense patents than foreign applicants. We further show that patents with …

to patents unless there are frictions such as imperfect information or commitment problems. We expand the analysis to a … world with two heterogeneous countries featuring different sizes and innovation capacities. Moving to an international …

The purpose of this study is to present a unique database on commercialized patents and to illustrate how it can be … used to analyze the commercialization process of patents. The dataset is based on a survey of Swedish patents owned by … commercialization not found anywhere else, including whether, when and how (acquisition, licensing, existing or new firm) patents were …

From a firm's perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand …, innovative performance is an important driver of profitability and growth. On the other hand, investments in innovation suffer … firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent …

markups, falling labor share and productivity growth. Patents are an important obstacle to knowledge diffusion. We find an …

patenting, our results further suggest that knowledge creation alliances lead to patents that are filed to protect valuable …