survey conducted to beneficiaries, this study reconstructs the progress made by the patent applicants. The results show, on …

This paper provides evidence on the mechanisms influencing the patent output of a sample of biotechnology firms from … models of counts are used to analyse the relationship between patent applications and R&D investment and capital expenditures …. It focuses on biotechnology in the period 2002-2007 and is based on a unique data set drawn from various sources …

policy, with a focus on biotechnology, held by the OECD's Competition Committee at the OECD in June 2004. The roundtable … enforcement issues, and the interface between IP and competition policy in the context of the biotechnology industry. This …

Based on the patent data from China National Intellectual Property Administration, we attempt to examine the effect of … gender diversity in inventor teams on patent quality. We argue that gender diversity in inventor teams can promote patent … quality, especially the invention patents that are high quality and radically innovative. Moreover, we find that the positive …

understanding of how technology diffusion process takes place in the biotechnology sector. In addition it has implication with …

know-how, incident to a patent, might be accelerated by the use of collaborative licensing strategies. In other words, can … construction of “open biotechnology” projects and infrastructures? This question is explored from a conceptual-theoretical and …, collaborative license mechanisms, in particular patent pools and open source regimes, may facilitate the transfer of know …

mechanisms for medium inventions, and patent their most important innovations. This result reestablishes the traditional view …. -- heterogeneous inventions ; innovation size ; intellectual property rights ; patents ; patent filing fees ; patentability standards …

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 …

We show that the acquisition of a startup inventor's first patent has a negative effect on the subsequent productivity … of the patent's inventor, leading to 6.7 fewer patents being granted to the inventor over five years. This effect is not … patent examiners ask them to cite, and examiners are more likely to cite patents that they have reviewed in the past. When …

to patent. Our study records how brewery innovators pursued a wide variety of highly distinct appropriability strategies … strategies could co-exist, although some brewery insiders maintaineda suspicion of the promoters of patent technologies which … could support trade in inventions even without the use of the patent system. …