set of opportunities for innovation in agricultural biotechnologies. Moreover, the institutional, regulatory and …

may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds our proprietary innovation, which on net may reduce total innovation …

national incentives for patent protection? What is the rationale for international coordination over patent policies? Given …

China has surpassed the United States in patent applications and has become world leader. Strong patenting activity … patent holders. Furthermore, the paper examines what drives patenting activity. Higher R&D spending by the firm and higher …, however, did not lead to strong productivity growth. The delinking of patenting activity from productivity growth could be …

30 OECD countries. It finds that patenting is highly concentrated: from 2010 to 2014, 10% of cities accounted for 64% of … patent applications to the European Patent Office, with the top five (Tokyo, Seoul, San Francisco, Higashiosaka and Paris …) representing 21.8% of applications. The share of the top cities in total patenting increased modestly from 1995 to 2014. Digital …

In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure through patent publication on the market for ideas. We do so … by analyzing the effects of the American Inventor’s Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA) — which required US patent applications … to be published 18 months after their filing date rather than at patent grant — on the timing of licensing deals in the …

between the propensity to jointly own a patent and proximity in the product market; b) joint patents are associated with less …