and an inventor labor market where this defensive poaching takes place. Incremental firms poach more as they grow, which …

We show that firm and industry, rather than inventor and invention factors, explain more than half of the variation in … inventor returns in administrative employer-inventor-patent-linked data from Germany. Between-firm variation in inventive rents … is strongly associated with inventor mobility. Inventors are more likely to make a move just before a patent is filed …

and an inventor labor market where this defensive poaching takes place. Incremental firms poach more as they grow, which …

We show that firm and industry, rather than inventor and invention factors, explain more than half of the variation in … inventor returns in administrative employer-inventor-patent-linked data from Germany. Between-firm variation in inventive rents … is strongly associated with inventor mobility. Inventors are more likely to make a move just before a patent is filed …