Patent studies inform our understanding of innovation. Any study of patenting involves classifying patent data … according to a chosen taxonomy. The literature has produced numerous taxonomies, which means patents are being classified …

We investigate how patent classification influences the interpretation of patent statistics. Innovation researchers … construct a transparent, replicable and adaptable patent taxonomy, and a new automated methodology for classifying patents. We … schema-dependent. We suggest much of the innovation literature should be carefully interpreted in light of our findings …

This paper investigates the relevance for innovation of international exhibitions. While the first of these events, i … innovation, and their relationship to the traditional patent measure, should be better qualified. To do so, this paper performs …. It matches a new database, built from the catalogue of this event, with patents granted in Italy, revealing substantial …

countries flooded the Spanish economy, taking thousands of patents and trademarks. Based on outstanding data on FDI and foreign …

for all patents granted in England in the period 1700-1850. Our findings indicate that macroinventions did not exhibit any …

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 …

. I analyze the impact of accelerated examination of 4IR patents on the patent examination period and the patent grant …

other sees it as a demand side response to economic incentives—that in Britain, it paid to invent the technology of the … to new commercial opportunities. This paper tests this assumption, using a new dataset of Scottish and Irish patents. It …