emphasizes a positive correlation between firm-level innovation and productivity gains. It is unsurprising, then, that policy … makers and researchers widely acknowledge that innovation is one of the major drivers of productivity growth, and is … extensively as a proxy for innovation in the literature. Here, we use a production function approach to estimate the return to R …

All forms of intellectual property may be necessary for the effective commercialization of a patent. Nevertheless …, while the Bayh-Dole Act is an explicit recognition by Congress of the need to allocate patent rights in order to promote a … policy of commercializing the products of federal research funding, it is silent on other salient intellectual patent rights …

Web-based innovation indicators may provide new insights into firm-level innovation activities. However, little is … Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) 2019 to analyze which website characteristics are related to innovation activities at the firm … show a better performance for the prediction of product innovations and innovation expenditures than for the prediction of …

This paper investigates the determinants of EPO (European Patent Office) patent applications per capita using a panel … of 22 OECD countries with data measured as five-year averages for the period 1980-1999. The patent production function is … per capita. Business enterprise R&D (BERD) expenditures are more effective in generating patent applications than public …

The patent system is usually described in terms of opposites, like producers versus trolls or software versus pharma …-five years of patent litigation by highly litigious non-practicing entities and randomly selected plaintiffs explores each of … one thousand patent outcomes in more than two thousand cases leads to some surprising findings. For example, while the …

Previous results show that gender diversity increases the probability that firms invest in R&D and engage in innovation …. This paper explores the relationship between gender diversity of R&D departments and their capacity to patent. Based on the … Spanish Community Innovation Survey between 2004 and 2014, we apply a two-step procedure in order to control for endogeneity …

relationship between gender diversity of R&D departments and their capacity to patent. Based on the Spanish Community Innovation …Previous results show that gender diversity increases the probability firms’ innovation. This paper explores the … diversity affects a firm’s capacity to patent in different manners depending on the coverage of the patents. On the one hand …

, amongst others, upon two innovation indicators, the volume of Patent applications and the number of Scientific journal …Scientific researchers usually announce their achievements in conferences, magazines, and patent offices. Our study was … initiated to improve the ascending ratio of research article publishing versus invention patent filing. World development relies …

In this paper we explore the concept of informal innovation by investigating it both on the input (activities) and … output (impact) side of the innovation process. Informal innovation is defined as innovation that is not explicitly planned … and budgeted and therefore remains largely hidden in (aggregate) innovation data. We take a statistical approach to reveal …