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Is Silence Golden? Patents versus Secrecy at the Firm Level
Hussinger, Katrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
In the 1990s, patenting schemes changed in many respects: upcoming new technologies accelerated the shift from price competition towards competition based on technical inventions, a worldwide surge in patenting took place, and the ‘patent thicket’ arose as a consequence of strategic...
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R&D, Patenting and Market Regulation: Evidence from EU Electricity industry
Cambini, Carlo; Caviggioli, Federico; Scellato, Giuseppe - Istituto di Economia e Politica dell'Energia e … - 2015
-level innovation intensity in the Electricity sector across 16 European countries during years 1990-2009. We matched data on R …
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Regulatory push-pull effects on innovation: an evaluation of the effects of the REACH regulation on patents in the chemical sector
Ghisetti, Claudia; Quatraro, Francesco - WWWforEurope - 2015
, redirecting firms’ innovation activities towards ecological targets without hampering their competitiveness is of paramount … avoid sub-optimal commitment of resources to the innovation process and ensure the reduction of polluting agents emissions … chemical domain so as to draw useful insights on the effect of the policy aiming at redirecting innovation activities to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011251873
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Credibility of the REACH Regulation: Lessons Drawn from an ABM
Arfaoui, Nabila; Brouillat, Eric; Jean, Maïder Saint - WWWforEurope - 2015
The present paper takes ground on an agent-based model presented in Arfaoui et al. (2014) to investigate the effects of credibility upon technology substitution such as stimulated by the REACH regulation (EC 1907/2006). The model is used to study how the perceived credibility by clients on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011251874
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Taxonomy of implemented policy instruments to foster the production of green technologies and improve environmental and economic performance
Crespi, Francesco; Ghisetti, Claudia; Quatraro, Francesco - WWWforEurope - 2015
, redirecting firms’ innovation activities towards ecological targets without hampering their competitiveness is of paramount … avoid sub-optimal commitment of resources to the innovation process and ensure the reduction of polluting agents emissions … chemical domain so as to draw useful insights on the effect of the policy aiming at redirecting innovation activities to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011251875
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Explaining the Patenting Propensity: A Regional Analysis using EPO-OECD Data
Cozza, Claudio; Schettino, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The aim of this paper is to study empirically the patenting propensity at the European regional level. To do that we use the OECD-REGPAT dataset, that includes patent applications made by European inventors and applicants to EPO in the time-span 1978-2011. Explanatory variables on R&D and human...
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Metrics of Innovation: Measuring the Italian Gap
Michele, Benvenuti; Luca, Casolaro; Elena, Gennari - In: Politica economica - Journal of Economic Policy (PEJEP) (2014) 1, pp. 5-50
The paper surveys the literature on the measurement of innovation activity and evaluates the position of Italy with … respect to the other major European countries. As a complex and multidimensional phenomenon, innovation has been measured from … Italy on most measures of innovation. Italy shows the largest gap for measures related to regulatory frameworks, ICT …
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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors
Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Stantcheva, Stefanie - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2015
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 Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011199194
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War and the Returns to Entrepreneurial Innovation among US Patentees, 1790-1870
Khan, Zorina B - In: Brussels Economic Review 52 (2009) 3/4, pp. 239-273
Wars create dramatic changes in incentives for entrepreneurship and innovation, which need to be understood if we are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868088
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‘Glorious Times’: The Emergence of Mechanical Engineering in Early Industrial Britain, c. 1700-1850
MacLeod, Christine; Nuvolari, Alessandro - In: Brussels Economic Review 52 (2009) 3/4, pp. 215-237
confronted with data on the growth of the sector and with an analysis of the patterns of innovation carried out by means of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868090