of the receiving country. We test the empirical implications of our model using patent data in renewable and fossil … Moment estimator. We show that knowledge transfer through patent duplication increases with the level of IPR protection, but … more sensitive to uncertainty. Commitment to EPs also increases the incentives for patent duplication. The magnitude of the …

We revisit the effect of the “Eco-Patent Commons” (EcoPC) on the diffusion of patented environmentally friendly … organizational issues. Our findings have implications for the effectiveness of patent commons in enabling the diffusion of patented … patents covering 94 “green” inventions. Hall and Helmers (2013) suggested that the patents pledged to the commons had the …

We revisit the effect of the "Eco-Patent Commons" (EcoPC) on the diffusion of patented environmentally friendly … organizational issues. Our findings have implications for the effectiveness of patent commons in enabling the diffusion of patented … patents covering 94 "green" inventions. Hall and Helmers (2013) suggested that the patents pledged to the commons had the …

database of patent applications from a cross-section of countries evidence is provided for the positive effect of flexibility …

patent holders extract rents from TRIPs, but may be better off without them. …

of the receiving country. We test the empirical implications of our model using patent data in renewable and fossil … Moment estimator. We show that knowledge transfer through patent duplication increases with the level of IPR protection, but … more sensitive to uncertainty. Commitment to EPs also increases the incentives for patent duplication. The magnitude of the …

diffusion, we rely on forward patent citations methodology. Results show that there is a strong likelihood that the citing … patent will be eventually linked to environmental technologies if the original oil and gas invention has already … the opposite quality level of the cited patent. Our results support the idea that more sector-specific environmental …

This paper uses patent data to assess policy factors (domestic and international) for patenting activity in automotive …