, resulting in a proliferation of patents on trivial inventions that actually retard technological innovation in the long run …

We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team … is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation … is weak. We also connect collaborative patents to the ethnic composition of the firm’s U.S. inventors and cross …

firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent … of patents on the dissemination of R&D findings is, however, insignificant. Therefore, we conclude that patent …

is very important. For our research we made use of the EPO (European Patent Office) database on patents. We used the …

focus on in this paper are two: patents received and scholarly publications emanating from the research conducted by in …

regimes. The results point to an important role for patents and other policy choices in driving the diffusion of new …