There is a growing literature that aims at assessing the private value of knowledge assets and patents. It has been … shown that patents and their quality as measured by citations received by future patents contribute significantly to the … forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of …

This paper refines indicators to measure innovation in environment-related technologies, drawing on recent … methodological advances that allow a more accurate assessment of environment-related innovation in a broader range of countries and …, and measuring the number of patents by itself does not provide an indication of their relative importance and impact …

Patent data provide an increasingly used means to analyse innovation performance worldwide including in countries with … patent data for measuring and analysing innovation in narrow technological fields, such as many environment …

This article compares the relationship between patent quality and patent value in discrete and cumulative innovation … size, we build a quality factor jointly driving all indicators for 9255 patents. We then test the significance of this … robust and significant link between patent quality and value in samples of discrete and complex technology patents, there is …

need to facilitate the finding of the balance that needs to be struck between incentives for drug development and access to …

China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …

role of patents and trade secrets on innovation. According to the analysis, first, service firms have fewer product … a low propensity for holding patents, but their holding of trade secrets is comparable to that of the manufacturing … firms. Third, patents and trade secrets have positive relationships with product innovations, and the effects are …

adequacy of current enforcement tools and strategies. A lack of adequate enforcement tools might well undermine the innovation …