consequences of collaborator loss by exploiting 845 unexpected deaths of active inventors. We find that inventor death has a …

invalidation: Affected inventors file 20% fewer patent applications in the decade after the decision. This effect is entirely …We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent … Office on affected inventors' subsequent patenting. We exploit exogenous variation in invalidation by leveraging the …

invalidation: Affected inventors file 20% fewer patent applications in the decade after the decision. This effect is entirely …We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent … Office on affected inventors' subsequent patenting. We exploit exogenous variation in invalidation by leveraging the …

We study how individual inventors respond to incentives to work on "clean" electricity technologies. Using natural gas … price variation, we estimate output and entry elasticities of inventors and measure the medium-term impacts of a price … increase mirroring the social cost of carbon. We find that the induced clean innovation response primarily comes from existing …

is strongly associated with inventor mobility. Inventors are more likely to make a move just before a patent is filed …We show that firm and industry, rather than inventor and invention factors, explain more than half of the variation in … inventor returns in administrative employer-inventor-patent-linked data from Germany. Between-firm variation in inventive rents …

This paper documents the influence of diaspora networks of high-skilled individuals - i.e., inventors - on … associated with a 1.5 to 2.2 percent increase in international patent collaborations. The evidence found survives the inclusion …

This paper provides a novel portrait of firms engaging in the international use of inventors. I focus on drug discovery … the most high-valued added R&D activities are conducted by inventors, who are engaged in the creation of new technologies … of inventors and this is similar to patterns from data analysing good and service traders and MNEs. Furthermore, host …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …