This paper looks at the relationship between patents and economic growth in Japan and South Korea using both individual … country and panel data. For the econometric estimation, we use annual data for 1963-2005. For Japan, we find that the … logarithms of real GDP and the number of patents are cointegrated. For South Korea, we do find such evidence. For Japan, we find …

group of relevant innovators. -- Innovation ; patent data ; solar technologies ; climate change …. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity … technologies. This study relies on patent data to examine international innovative activity in concentrating solar power …

forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of … imprecise measure of patent value. -- Market Value ; Patents ; Citations ; Patent Value …There is a growing literature that aims at assessing the private value of knowledge assets and patents. It has been …

to import competition. The results suggest that intensified import competition from the People's Republic of China has …This paper empirically examines the "defensive innovation" hypothesis that firms with higher exposure to low …-wage economy import competition intensively undertake more innovative activity by using a high quality Japanese firm-level panel …

to import competition. The results suggest that intensified import competition from the People's Republic of China has …This paper empirically examines the “defensive innovation” hypothesis that firms with higher exposure to low …-wage economy import competition intensively undertake more innovative activity by using a high quality Japanese firm-level panel …

. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity … technologies. This study relies on patent data to examine international innovative activity in concentrating solar power … solar thermal technologies to the International Patent Classification (IPC) system. To this end we suggest a narrowly …

It is a crucial function of patent examination to make the patent scope consistent with the contribution of the … invention to the state of the art. We assess this function using newly developed data on the scope of Japanese patent …

forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of …There is a growing literature that aims at assessing the private value of knowledge assets and patents. It has been … shown that patents and their quality as measured by citations received by future patents contribute significantly to the …