We investigate the merger behavior of firms in the plant biotechnology sector using firm-level patent data for public … will "match" in mergers and spinoffs. We calculate several patent portfolio-based measures of complementarity and … highlight the need to integrate patent and competition policy …

of the receiving country. We test the empirical implications of our model using patent data in renewable and fossil … Moment estimator. We show that knowledge transfer through patent duplication increases with the level of IPR protection, but … more sensitive to uncertainty. Commitment to EPs also increases the incentives for patent duplication. The magnitude of the …