In this paper, we offer a novel explanation to the surge in patenting bserved during the last years. With low … patentability standards at PTOs (Patent and Trademark Offices awarding so-called bad patents), not only “false innovators” have the … chance of being granted patents but also, and more interestingly, “true innovators” are forced to patent more intensively …

We investigate how international patent activity enables firms from emerging economies to thrive in the global … marketplace. We match Chinese customs data to US patent records, and leverage the quasi-random assignment of USPTO patent … examiners to identify the causal effect of a US patent grant on the subsequent export performance of Chinese firms. Successful …

the signalling value of patents, and mitigating financial barriers to innovation. …How does patent examination influence access to finance for innovative firms? We exploit a reform to the UK's patent … system that introduced substantive examination to the patent application process, improving the information available to …

interac-tion between these two innovation tools by determining the impact of a crowdfunding campaign’s patent status on the … campaign’s success and de-livery. The first study examines 9,184 Kickstarter campaigns in patent-eli-gible categories to … determine whether patented or patent-pending labeled projects are more likely to reach their funding goal and in turn achieve …

neither. We show that two types of signalling equilibria are possible. Both are characterised by dispersion and Pareto …

randomized experiment, we demonstrate increased salience of patent status heightens consumers' beliefs that products are … five years, we find no evidence consumers respond to increased patent salience …