invention or innovation cannot be guaranteed. Our main aim is to examine the relationship between business R&D expenditure …, invention and innovation in the long-run. We also examine the level of business R&D expenditure in EU countries. The long …The paper deals with the problem of business spending on research and development and their relation to innovation …

the regional innovator network, promoting region-specific knowledge spillovers. Two data bases are applied. First, patent …

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, all countries having patent systems required patentable inventions to be … nonobvious. The nonobviousness requirement is considered to be so central to patent policy that it has frequently been called the … doctrine of invention, inventive step or simply the patentability requirement. This Article traces how this defining doctrine …

' performance. Prior research highlights the critical role non-pecuniary factors play in influencing inventors' productivity, yet … quality of innovative output. We test our hypotheses using information on every patent granted by the U.S. Patent and …

experience significantly better innovation outcomes, as measured by patents and future citations. We obtain these results in … CEOs on future innovation: firms whose CEO transitions to be an inventor experience positive abnormal stock returns …

In this study, we empirically assess the contributions of inventors and firms for innovation using a 37-year panel of U … are attracted to firms that (i) have weak firm-specific invention capabilities, and (ii) employ other talented inventors ….S. patenting activity. We estimate that inventors' human capital is 5-10 times more important than firm capabilities for explaining …

Open innovation is the subject of increased scholarly debate. A lot of attention has thereby been paid to firm …-centered open innovation, characterized by a for-profit motive and the interplay between patents and contracts, resulting in … communities the present paper examines how the law can assist in establishing a new approach to open innovation (‘new' open …

In this study, we empirically assess the contributions of inventors and firms for innovation using a 37-year panel of U … are attracted to firms that (i) have weak firm-specific invention capabilities, and (ii) employ other talented inventors ….S. patenting activity. We estimate that inventors’ human capital is 5-10 times more important than firm capabilities for explaining …