engage in less green R&D investment, patent applications, and research staff. Industries that are heavy emitters and those …Government subsidies are often used to stimulate environment-friendly investment. We find that Chinese firms reduce … green investment as the uncertainty of subsidies rises. This effect is identified from weather-driven fluctuations in air …

While patent systems have been widely used both historically and internationally, there is nonetheless a tremendous … amount of controversy over whether patent systems - in practice - improve the alignment between private returns and social … contributions. In this paper, I describe three parameters - how the disclosure function affects research investments, how patent …

from innovation. In this paper, we revisit that question using a nationally representative sample of firms over the period … of the economics of innovation. There are five main findings. First, while patenting firms are relatively uncommon in the … differences in the type of R&D or innovation produced by a firm. We also discuss the implications of these findings for innovation …

institutional change benefitted patent holders, explains the burst in U.S. patenting. Using both international and" domestic data on … patent applications and awards, we conclude that the evidence is not favorable" to the conventional view. Instead, it appears … that the jump in patenting reflects an increase in" U.S. innovation spurred by changes in the management of research …

This survey reviews the growing use of patent data in economic analysis. After describing some of the main … characteristics of patents and patent data, it focuses on the use of patents as an indicator of technological change. Cross … the distribution of patent values and the value of patent rights, the latter being based on recent analyses of European …

-term performance. We investigate 495 transactions with a focus on one form of long-term activities, namely investments in innovation as … standard measures of patent quality, we find that patents granted to firms involved in private equity transactions are more …

While many studies have looked at innovation and adoption of technologies separately, the two processes are linked … combines plant-level data on U.S. coal-fired electric power plants with patent data pertaining to NOx pollution control …

manufacturing firms over the 1980s and 1990s. Evidence from aggregate patent and R&D statistics and a micro-level analysis of R …