or output of a knowledge production function. We suggest that the productivity of research in patent production functions … to patentable knowledge, and development happens after the initial research phase that may have led to a patent. Instead …

on the effects of the patent stock on profitability. The database is a representative sample of German manufacturing … patent stock has a strong and robust effect on profitability …

I study how green patents affect follow-on green innovation at the firm level. To provide causal evidence, I examine … afterward. I find that there is no significant effect of incremental green innovation driven by examiners on subsequent green … innovation. Such incremental green innovation does not lead to increases in institutional ownership and Environmental, Social …

postdoctoral scholars contribute equally to patent activity or whether there is a differential effect depending upon visa status …. We find patent counts relate positively and significantly to the number of faculty, number of PhD students and number of …

In this paper we look at patents as alternative to trade secrets. We disentangle the disclosure motive for patent … protection from the traditional reward motive by adjusting the level of patent protection so as to make the innovator just … indifferent between patenting and keeping the innovation secret. Thus, we keep the reward (expected profits) to the innovator …

The Federal Trade Commission's 2003 innovation report revealed an interesting fact: the pharmaceutical industry is … largely satisfied with today's patent system while the electronics, software and Internet industries are not. This article … inventive process for pharmaceuticals. Our patent system, however, has no analogous requirement for the other fields. In them …

We consider mergers in an innovation contest between n firms in the presence of synergetic effects. We assume that a …

shows that patent race winners do significantly more follow-on innovation, and the follow-on research that they do is more …Competition between firms to invent and patent an idea, or “patent racing,” has been much discussed in theory, but … seldom analyzed empirically. This article introduces an empirical way to identify patent races, and provides the first broad …

and Novel Scientific Origins. For each dimension we propose an operationalization using patent classification and citation …

The impact of strategies used to appropriate innovation rents on firm performance is analyzed using a sample of U ….S. public manufacturing firms. Stronger appropriability at the firm level, achieved through patent protection or the ownership … a firm's R&D assets. Among commonly used 'non-conventional' patent strategies, preemptive patenting allows incumbents to …