Government intention to spur innovation can result in the proliferation of low-quality patents, which is especially … high-quality patents in the patent pool. This study provides a theoretical background for evaluating the impact of …-funded innovation in weakly institutionalized environments. I offer a game-theoretic model, in which the government has a stake in …

Software innovation is transforming the U.S. economy. Yet our understanding of how patents and patent transactions … support this innovation is limited by a lack of public information about patent licenses and sales. Claims about the patent …. Despite the prevalence of NPEs, most patents are not bought for assertion, but to support these critical innovation functions …

industry innovations measured by the numbers of journal publications, patents and Nobel Laureates. I use sensitivity analysis …

-called supermajors, within the context of the potential business model innovation. The work aims to make two main contributions. First … introduced strategy characteristics could be considered as business model innovation …

Our contribution to the expanding literature on the globalization of research and innovation is to investigate the …

five factors describe the phenomena largely responsible for the current mass extinction event, and patent law offers … valuable assistance in combating each one. Though it cannot offer a complete solution to the biodiversity crisis, the patent … system can offer powerful tools to help save biodiversity. On first inspection, patent law might appear an unlikely ally for …

The purpose of patent policy is to balance the incentive to invent against the ability of the economy to utilize and … incorporate new inventions and innovations. Substandard patents that upset this balance impose deadweight losses and other costs … on the economy. In this paper, we examine some of the deadweight losses that result from granting substandard patents in …

innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family …The purpose of this study is to present a unique database on commercialized patents and to illustrate how it can be … used to analyze the commercialization process of patents. The dataset is based on a survey of Swedish patents owned by …

. It will also question whether biopharmaceutical firms have upheld their end of the patent bargain by adequately …