careers. We combine survey information spanning the inventors' entire careers and psychometric test evidence, with patent …, Skills, Abilities, and Other) factors, this paper seeks to explain empirically the performance of inventors throughout their … history data for more than 1,000 inventors. We also control for variables that have traditionally been included in estimations …

. Faculty patents assigned to academic inventors or to public research institutions, in contrast, are more complex, more basic … and exploit academic inventions that are further away from market applications. -- academic inventors ; university …

applied by owners of potentially rival technologies. -- academic inventors ; intellectual property rights ; patent oppositions … academic patents using German professor patents linked to patent opposition data from the European Patent Office (EPO). Patent … patent value, asymmetric information and diverging expectations between the opposition parties, the likelihood of a …

We explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent …-Maddala and log normal distributions, the log normal appears to provide the best fit to our patented invention value data. …

true. Using a panel of German firms linked to the PATSTAT patent data, we study invention in both types of energy … technologies and how their inventors differ in terms of central firm-specific characteristics. More importantly, we study the … relation between conventional (i.e. non-energy) invention and energy invention within the firms. The results from dynamic count …