possess this tacit knowledge, inventors may need to play an active role when patents are commercialized. We build on Arora … activity. However, imperfect IPRs may reduce inventors' incentives to engage in the commercialization process. We analyze when … is important for the successful commercialization of patents by using a detailed patent database. The database contains …

diffusion decreases both in technology imitation among innovators and in technology adoption by entrepreneurs. Patents are an …

markups, falling labor share and productivity growth. Patents are an important obstacle to knowledge diffusion. We find an …

China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …

This paper tries to find how firms use IPRs in the form of patents to protect innovation capital and find determinants … developing and/or implementing a product or process innovation in the years 2010-2012. Besides descriptive statistics which show … firms' attitudes toward the effectiveness of patents and their determinants, I apply the knowledge production functionto …

China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …

possess this tacit knowledge, inventors may need to play an active role when patents are commercialized. We build on Arora … activity. However, imperfect IPRs may reduce inventors' incentives to engage in the commercialization process. We analyze when … is important for the successful commercialization of patents by using a detailed patent database. The database contains …

possess this tacit knowledge, inventors may need to play an active role when patents are commercialized. We build on Arora … activity. However, imperfect IPRs may reduce inventors’ incentives to engage in the commercialization process. We analyze when … is important for the successful commercialization of patents by using a detailed patent database. The database contains …

of tacit knowledge codification, and to illuminate the role of intellectual property in the firm. Patents, for example … ameliorating the risks associated with loss of tacit knowledge. Thus, aside from the usual justifications for patents in terms of … know-how will always remain in tacit form, unpatented and uncodified. As with all codes, the use of patents assumes an …

A frequently made claim in the innovation literature is that important inventions involve the transfer of new knowledge … from one technological domain to another. This study uses U.S. patents granted from 1976-2006 to identify the role of … knowledge acquired from outside each patent’s technological domain. Our results do not seem to support the claim above …