invention, using data on U.S. patents’ Finnish inventors and the distance to the nearest technical university as an instrument …Modern growth theory puts invention on the center stage. Inventions are created by individuals, raising the question …: can we increase number of inventors? To answer this question, we study the causal effect of M.Sc. engineering education on …

Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over time and combine it with international effective top tax rate data. We …This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar …" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European …

Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the … characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the …

measure of innovation alternative to patent count. Unlike the impact on patent count, we do not find that VC investment … impact on patent count at industry level, and this impact is larger than that of R&D expenditures. We confirm that this … and material. Therefore, our finding suggests that, at industry level, VC investment increases the patent propensity but …

Patent holders may choose to protect innovations with single patents or to develop portfolios of multiple, related … inventions. We propose a simple decision-making model in which patent-holders may allocate resources to either expanding the … returns to an increase of the number of inventions when firms perceive patent protection to be strong. Thus, a higher number …