the innovative success of R&D cooperation projects and project characteristics. Patent applications and publications are … patent applications, but not to publications. Conversely, university involvement has positive effects on project outcomes in … terms of publications but not in terms of patent applications. In general, projects' funding is an important predictor of …

output. Research units that source research ideas from small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) patent more, but not more …

This paper develops a methodology to compare the quality of examination services in different patent offices. Quality … is defined as the extent to which patent offices comply with their patentability conditions in a transparent way. The … of patent offices in Europe (EPO), Japan (JPO) and the US (USPTO) shows that their operational designs differ …

. For external financing of patent projects and small technology-based firms, Sweden has during long time relied on … government support rather than private venture capital firms. The empirical results show that the larger share of the patent … reasons to the bad performance are: 1) the design of the government loans, where the patent owner can escape from paying back …