innovation and imitation incentives.Surprisingly from an economic standpoint, however, various calculation methodsfor damages are …

Patent trolls appropriate profits from innovation solely by enforcing patents against infringers.They are often …

the capacity of China’s NIS in creating indigenous innovation.We provide insights drawing upon patent data and using …

scientistscontribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, inturn, contribute slightly less to … industrial innovation than recent university graduates. Bycontrast, immobile workers add little to the innovative activity of … their employer. We also findthat the contribution of mobile R&D workers to innovation depreciates fairly rapidly …

We develop a dynamic duopoly model of R&D competition to improve the quality of a finalgood. The innovation process is … other hand, depends onthe relative magnitudes of the costs of initial innovation and improvements. In particular, aresearch …

innovation. Yet, firms do patent, as indicated by the largenumber of patents that are granted. This paper offers a possible … resolution to this puzzle.It takes a simplified version of a duopoly innovation race, and studies the patenting decisionof an … innovator who has private information about the improvability of her innovation.In this setting, it is shown that a firm may use …

foradjacent regions. One main finding is that the quality of the university research makes somecontribution to regional innovation …