This paper provides evidence on the mechanisms influencing the patent output of a sample of biotechnology firms from … models of counts are used to analyse the relationship between patent applications and R&D investment and capital expenditures … including the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, the European Patent Office (EPO), the US Patent and Trademark Office …

China has surpassed the United States in patent applications and has become world leader. Strong patenting activity …, however, did not lead to strong productivity growth. The delinking of patenting activity from productivity growth could be … by electronics manufacturers. State-owned firms spend more on R&D per patent, but hold fewer patents per researcher than …

the firm-level labour productivity in Italy by 2.4 percentage points. …This paper investigates the causal effect of public administration efficiency on firm-level productivity. To this … purpose, we combine newly available data from Italy on public administration efficiency of subnational governments with geo …

engaged in international markets, drawing on micro-data from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United …. Size, productivity and previous exporting experience appear to be decisive factors in dealing with at-the-border and behind …

Patent boxes have been heavily debated for their role in corporate tax competition. This paper uses firm-level data for … determinants of patent registration across a large sample of countries. Importantly, we disentangle the effects of corporate income … taxation from the tax advantage of patent boxes. We also exploit a new and original dataset on patent box features such as the …

Intellectual property protection mechanisms (IPPMs) are critical to fostering innovation and their relevance has grown …

of certain types of self-employed workers to the corporations’ sector of some countries, most notably Germany and Italy …, Italy and the United States are then much more similar than what the accounts for non-financial corporations suggest. The … evidence presented in this paper for France and Italy. It is only for the United States that we can confirm such an increase. …