Such institutions as patent systems cannot be well understood without an assessment of technological creativity in …. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation … unpredictable, and was unrelated to such proxies for the productivity of the innovation as inventive capital or the commercial …

estimation is over panel datasets of patent grants, and unpatented innovations that were submitted for prizes at the annual … hypothesis of spatial autocorrelation in patenting and in the exhibited innovations. In keeping with the contract theory of … affected by patenting in contiguous or adjacent counties, and the analysis indicates that such spatial effects were large and …

patenting fees at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, on patent quality. Results from a series of difference …The paper investigates whether patent fees are an effective mechanism to deter the filing of low-quality patent … applications. The study analyzes the effect of the Patent Law Amendment Act of 1982, which resulted in a substantial increase in …

The pace of innovation is related both to the level of investment in innovation and the pool of knowledge from which … and design of IPR affects the extent to which any innovation adds to or subtracts from the pool of ideas that are … lead to a lower pace of innovation, and more generally, that long run effects may be the opposite of the short run effects. …

date, have largely concluded that patent pools have been associated with reduced rates of technical innovation in the …. As theory seems to predict, the empirical effects of patent pools on innovation are likely to be ambiguous, dependent on …The impact of patent pools on the rate and direction of technological change is an open question in both theoretical …

. Large firms may find it disadvantageous to engage in an "R&D race" with small firms, as they can obtain access to innovation …

incumbents and entrants in a cumulative innovation environment; that is, entrants may not be adequately compensated for losses in …

higher patenting rates once they have engage in university-firm collaborations. We propose and test two indicators of … scientist and (b) applied for (an eventually granted) patent with non-patent references, where these references are used … across four measures of U.S. high-tech firm success (publishing, patenting, obtaining venture capital, and going public) for …