years? Over the last several decades, scholars have proposed multifarious theoretical frameworks for patent valuation, but … no accepted empirical law has emerged. Further, each proposed patent valuation method has at least one major drawback … patent valuation method. Uncertainty or inaccuracy is either inherent in the method or arises from subjective bias or lack of …

industrial manufacturing and innovation. Standardization is regarded primarily as a technical issue, and hence receives only …-functioning standardization system and strategy can work as a catalyst for translating new ideas, inventions and discoveries into productivity … of latecomer standardization tasks, capabilities and strategies is used to demonstrate that the costs of developing and …

identifying assumptions. Second, it presents estimates of the effect of patent protection on the depreciation rate. Results … suggest that the depreciation rate is in the 2–7 per cent range. Inventions for which a patent is granted are associated with …

) citations by a patent of standard-related documents measure such knowledge flow, and how significantly they affect the … of the patents citing standard documents has been increasing. The citation information in US patent documents can be … number of patents, controlling for research labor input, the use of scientific literature, as well as that of patent …

the standard-setting process and standard adoption. We propose the average total costs per patent family as an economic … increasing ownership concentration of SEP families is negatively associated with firms’ average total costs per patent family …, suggesting that decreasing competition around SEP families might decrease firms’ investments per patent family. We conclude that …