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Matching of PATSTAT applications to AIDA firms: discussion of the methodology and results

Lotti, Francesca; Marin, Giovanni - Banca d'Italia - 2013

European Patent Office from the PATSTAT database. The need to match data on patent applications with balance-sheet information … stems from the importance of patent statistics as a source of information on the innovative performance of firms. Starting …

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The protection of industrial inventions: analysis of the regulation and policy evaluation.

Sabbatini, Daniele - Banca d'Italia - 2011

dynamic competition between Italian firms. At the national level the exclusive allocation of the right to patent inventions to … system of protection (provision of a single patent that is valid in all Member States, the abolition of translation … German), to make it easier for competitors to know which is the valid version of the patent. …

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The effect of the Uruguay Round on the intensive and extensive margins of trade

Buono, Ines; Lalanne, Guy - Banca d'Italia - 2010

Do tariffs inhibit trade flows by limiting the entry of exporting firms (`extensive margin') or by restricting the average volume exported by each firm (`intensive margin')? Using a gravity equation approach, we analyze how the decrease in tariffs promoted during the 1990s by the Uruguay Round...

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Inward foreign direct investment and innovation: evidence from Italian provinces

Antonietti, Roberto; Bronzini, Raffaello; Cainelli, Giulio - Banca d'Italia - 2015

This paper investigates empirically whether inward greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) is related to greater sectorial innovation in the host Italian provinces. We combine several sources of data to estimate panel count models, regressing the annual number of patents in each province and...

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