This paper seeks to understand how motives to patent affect the use of the patent portfolio with a particular focus on motives aimed at the monetization of intellectual property (IP). The analysis relies on data from an international survey conducted by the European Patent Office (EPO). The main...

The development of Digital Inclusive Finance (DIF) offers new opportunities for corporate innovation. This study empirically explores the influence of DIF on firms' R&D and innovation output via a two-way fixed-effects model and an instrumental variable method using the 2011-2018 Peking...