of IPRs to common archetypes of sustainable innovation and I discuss the motives why companies might file patents …As sustainable innovation becomes a strategy for companies to gain competitive advantage, the question of how to profit … from sustainable innovation becomes central. Surprisingly, little research exists on the appropriation strategies of …

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 … on why developing countries should encourage FDI and strengthen the IPR regime together to enhance domestic innovation …

main dataset covers their intellectual properties, patents and trademarks, filed between 2005 and 2012. The paper extends …

We test whether intellectual property rights foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations for a …

We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent …

market positions of firms, and that firms dispute not only about single patents but often about portfolios. Consequently …, this paper examines the occurrence of IP litigation cases in Belgian firms using the 2013 Community Innovation Survey with … supplemental information on IP litigation and patent portfolios. The rich survey information regarding firms’ general innovation …

patents. Those jointly filed by industry and research institutions grew even faster. However, research institutions’ share in … patent applications remains low and their ratio of patents granted to applications is below that of industry. An econometric …

innovation in these cities. …

intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …

We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent …