Despite a worldwide increase in university patenting, empirical studies have largely focused on analyzing university patenting in individual countries and regions. We provide analyses from an international perspective, examining patents at the top 300 universities worldwide. By providing a...

Chinese university patenting has gained importance in recent years. Using a comprehensive dataset of university patents by 155 leading Chinese universities from 1991 to 2009, our study pursues two objectives: First, we analyze the quantity and quality of patents filed by leading Chinese...

Research has shown that financial markets value trademarks. However, most firms’ trade-mark portfolios are not loose agglomerations of intellectual property (IP) rights. Often, a firm’s trademarks can be decomposed into groups of related trademarks (trademark families). This study identifies...

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is the (r)evolutionary movement to create a solely code-based, intermediary-independent financial system—a movement which has grown from $4bn to $104bn in assets locked in the last three years. We present the first systematic literature review of the yet fragmented...

Similar to mobile operating systems, public blockchain infrastructures, such as Ethereum, represent a platform for the development of software applications. Since 2020, we observe the emergence of a rapidly evolving ecosystem of blockchain-based applications called Decentralized Finance (DeFi),...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the innovative performance of China’s NIS in international comparison and the capacity of China’s NIS in creating indigenous innovation. We provide insights drawing upon patent data and using patent families to determine the value of the...