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The market value of blocking patent citations
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Leten, Bart - 2011
shown that patents and their quality as measured by citations received by future patents contribute significantly to the … forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of … the art, it can also be cited because it threatens the novelty of patent applications ('blocking citations'). Empirical …
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Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey
Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - 2006
Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and...
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Intellectual property rights and agricultural development: Evidence from a worldwide index of IPRs in agriculture (1961-2018)
Campi, Mercedes; Nuvolari, Alessandro - 2020
This paper revises and updates the Campi-Nuvolari index of intellectual property protection for plant varieties (Campi and Nuvolari, 2015). The new index has been updated and provides yearly scores for the period 1961-2018 for a total number of 104 countries, which have legislation on plant...
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Intellectual property protection in plan varieties: A new worldwide index (1961-2011)
Campi, Mercedes; Nuvolari, Alessandro - 2013
In this paper, we construct a new index that measures the strength of intellectual property (IP) protection for plant varieties for 69 countries over the period 1961-2011. We examine the statistical properties of the index and we compare it with other measures of IP protection. We conclude that...
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Micro Evidence on International Patenting
Maurseth, Per Botolf; Svensson, Roger - 2012
Globalization, high growth rates in high-tech industries, growing emerging markets and harmonization of patent institutions across countries have stimulated patenting in foreign markets. We use a simple model of international patenting, where the decision to patent in a foreign country depends...
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Patents: A Means to Innovation or Strategic Ends?
Schwarz, Jiri; Stepanek, Martin - 2016
strategic patenting over time and across industries. With received citations as a measure of patent social value, we use data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787271
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Institutionalized Incentives for Ingenuity – Patent Value and the German Employees’ Inventions Act
Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - 2006
Germany is one of few countries in which the monetary compensation for inventors is not only determined by negotiations between employer and employee-inventor, but also by relatively precise legal provisions. In this paper, we describe the characteristics of the German Employees’ Inventions...
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Recent trends in the research on national innovation systems
Balzat, Markus; Hanusch, Horst - 2003
In this paper, we give an overview on recent developments in the research on national innovation systems (NIS). Essentially, we identify three development lines of the concept. These are policy-oriented studies that frequently combine the NIS approach with the terminology of corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263011
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Population Aging and Inventive Activity
Irmen, Andreas; Litina, Anastasia - 2016
This research empirically establishes and theoretically motivates the hypothesis that population aging has a hump-shaped effect on inventive activity. We estimate this hump-shaped relationship in a panel of 33 OECD countries over the period 1960-2012. The increasing part of the hump captures the...
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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
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