This paper analyses the development of universities' patent applications in Germany before and after the abolition of … the 'professors' privilege' in 2002. By means of a database with all patent applications of German universities with … legislation is found only for universities without patent activities in the past. This indicates the importance of collecting …

The paper studies the patent productivity of scientists over their life cycle. The incentives for patenting and for … at the end of the scientific career. In contrast, the analytical model given here suggests an increase of patent … productivity over the life time. In the empirical part the patents of nearly 1000 German patent active professors are analyzed. The …

Patent boxes have been heavily debated for their role in corporate tax competition. This paper uses firm-level data for … determinants of patent registration across a large sample of countries. Importantly, we disentangle the effects of corporate income … taxation from the tax advantage of patent boxes. We also exploit a new and original dataset on patent box features such as the …

There has been a wide-spread misconception based on the imprecise wording of Art. 52 of the European Patent Convention … framework set by patent laws with respect to the patentability of business methods, contrasting the situation in lege in Europe … Europe. In the empirical part of the paper, 1,901 European patent applications relating to business methods are identified …

China has surpassed the United States in patent applications and has become world leader. Strong patenting activity … by electronics manufacturers. State-owned firms spend more on R&D per patent, but hold fewer patents per researcher than … patent holders. Furthermore, the paper examines what drives patenting activity. Higher R&D spending by the firm and higher …

-in-difference approach on an original dataset of patent-paper-pairs we are able to estimate the causal effect of the granting of a patent on … applicability of an innovation is further affects the relation. To address these issues we build a novel dataset matching patent …