This paper examines empirically the theoretical relationship between external knowledge and innovation success. Special …-specific absorptive capacities. The results of the micro-econometric analysis based on German firm data on innovation suggest that firms … can effectively use external R&D within their own innovation process, as long as they have access to the relevant …

This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering … show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect of FDI on domestic innovation when the intellectual property … on why developing countries should encourage FDI and strengthen the IPR regime together to enhance domestic innovation …

economic areas: USA, Japan and Europe. In each economic area, we exploit information from two international patent offices data …, the United States Patent and Trademarks Office data and the European Patent Office data. In this way, we can investigate … the existing literature is that we introduce a patent inventors approach to measure the proximity between the firms …

We study how fragmentation of patent rights ('patent thickets') and the formation of the Court of Appeal for the … Federal Circuit (CAFC) affected the duration of patent disputes, and thus the speed of technology diffusion through licensing …. We develop a model of patent litigation which predicts faster settlement agreements when patent rights are fragmented and …

incentive or disclosure, patenting may help to secure knowledge against loss or dissipation. However, considerable technical … attendant constellation of tacit knowledge regarding the interpretation and application of the information in the patent. The … through the patent system also provides important stability to attendant tacit knowledge. Patent doctrines regarding prior art …

-in-differences estimates using 4226 China–U.S. patent dyads and comparable U.S. patents support our hypotheses …

30 OECD countries. It finds that patenting is highly concentrated: from 2010 to 2014, 10% of cities accounted for 64% of … patent applications to the European Patent Office, with the top five (Tokyo, Seoul, San Francisco, Higashiosaka and Paris …) representing 21.8% of applications. The share of the top cities in total patenting increased modestly from 1995 to 2014. Digital …

Novelty is a basic requirement of patent law. An inventor cannot obtain a patent if the invention exists in the “prior …-filed patent document qualifies as prior art as of its filing date — even though the document does not become accessible to the … invention to the public; administrative delay of public accessibility due to Patent Office procedures should not count against …

We examine the incentives for experimentation in the context of innovation and market competition. A monopolist chooses …-a-vis the socially optimal policy. Patents can control the pace of innovation and restore the efficient level of experimentation …. When the surplus from R&D is large, rewarding early-stage innovation limits socially wasteful investments. We offer a …