minor innovation such as external design patent, highlighting a "demonstration effect" of FDI …Foreign direct investment (FDI) can benefit innovation activity in the host country via spillover channels such as … data from 1995 to 2000, we find positive effects of FDI on the number of domestic patent applications in China. This …

national incentives for patent protection? What is the rationale for international coordination over patent policies? Given …

This paper tackles one of the most persistent criticism of patent statistics. Because not all inventions are patented …, the patent-to-R&D ratio reflects both a productivity effect (the number of inventions created per unit of research input … methodology uses information on the density of patent value and leads to results that are easy to interpret. It is applied to a …

This paper decomposes the R&D-patent relationship at the industry level to shed light on the sources of the worldwide … surge in patent applications. The empirical analysis is based on a unique dataset that includes 5 patent indicators computed … for 18 industries in 19 countries covering the period from 1987 to 2005. The analysis shows that variations in patent …

The paper surveys the literature on the measurement of innovation activity and evaluates the position of Italy with … respect to the other major European countries. Innovation has been measured from different perspectives: the environment in … which firms operate, firms' commitment, its outcome. Both traditional and new measures of innovation are considered, using …

observe export and patenting activities worldwide and at the product level. We exploit how heterogeneity of patent … coverageacross (and within) product-country relates to exports. We find a patent premium of at least 10 percent, which is mainly …

This paper decomposes the R&D-patent relationship at the industry level to shed light on the sources of the worldwide … surge in patent applications. The empirical analysis is based on a unique dataset that includes 5 patent indicators computed … for 18 industries in 19 countries covering the period from 1987 to 2005. The analysis shows that variations in patent …

O'donoghue and Zweimüller (2004, J. of Econ. Growth), a seminal work, showed that broadening leading breadth in patent … protection can stimulate innovation. However, the empirical literature has consistently found skeptical results on the positive … our model, broadening leading breadth can negatively affect innovation because each innovator is incentivized to free …