From a firm’s perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand …, innovative performance is an important driver of profitability and growth. On the other hand, investments in innovation suffer … firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent …

an innovation rewarding institution. According to our analysis, pharma patents have constituted legal barriers to protect … witnessed by the fact that patent applications are very skewed in the covered trade names and patent thickness expands over time … pharmaceutical firms, between patent portfolio and profit margins. …

This paper estimates the effect of patent pledges, commitments made voluntarily by patent holders to limit the … enforcement of their patents, on follow-on inventions. Patent pledges have been gaining popularity in recent years thanks to the … implications of patent pledges, but we know very little about the societal aspects of such pledges. The empirical analysis exploits …

In the land of ‘Jugaad’, where everyone is able to find a frugal fix toany problem, innovation is still dismal …. Innovation in India is dismal not because of the lack of grey matter, but because India is systemically failing its inventors …

correlations of the patent value indicators with technological innovation are noisy, this study provides stronger empirical support …I provide empirical evidence that quality-adjusted patents can identify technological innovation in small and medium …-sized enterprises. Survey data on commercialization of patents is related to patent quality indicators (patent renewal, patent family …

We analyze the gender gap in the success of patent application at the USPTO. We leverage quasi-exogeneous variation … from the random assignment of patent examiners within technology fields, allowing us to find the causal impact of examiner … patent approval. This gender gap does not seem to be impacted by the gender of the examiner of the application. When we focus …

Theoretically, whether technology firms should increase external R&D in response to stronger patent law depends on the … effects of law on returns to external and internal R&D. Exploiting geographical differences in the strengthening of patent …

fulfill the responsibilities they have been assigned in fostering innovation. But I argue here that in their moments of … the door to a new examination of patent purposes, and to understanding some otherwise inexplicable characteristics of … patent law …

the change. My results show that more restrictive patent policies at the SDO level decrease the innovation effort of firms …In this paper, I empirically study the effect of IEEE’s IPR policy change in 2015 on standard related innovation. I … construct a novel dataset of companies that have declared at least one patent as essential for an IEEE standard (the treatment …