We investigate the effect of patent disclosures on corporate innovation. Using the American Inventor's Protection Act … (AIPA) as a shock that increased patent disclosures, we find an increase in innovation for firms whose rivals reveal more … the law. These findings suggest patent disclosures generate both spillover benefits and proprietary costs. Our findings …

technological synthesis within the broader economy. Using data on patents and patent citations obtained from the PATSTAT …-CRIOS database, covering all patent applications made to the European Patent Office (EPO), we try to model the systemic nature of …