It is well known that patents drive the modern economies. But they do even more: patents also serve as a valuable and unique source of up-to-date scientific and technological information. It is assumed that only 10% to 15% of the content presented in patents are described in other publications as well. The worldwide stock of patents thus comprises about 85% to 90% of scientific knowledge. Given...

My first brush with intellectual property came through defending free data release from the human genome project. I was amazed at the tacit acceptance by some that this information could and should be privatized. The product was not an invention: a genome sequence is a clearcut case of public domain material. People need a robust system for handling intellectual property, but patents have ambiv...

Abstract Various inventions are presented in the water industry, essential for supply, distribution, treatment, storage, and consumption optimization. It is necessary to confirm their novelty, innovative steps, industrial applicability protect water-related patents. However, impacts of climate change not considered granting patents, registered or rejected regardless these impacts. For example, ...

Relying on the M&A transaction-level dataset and adopting a more region-specific approach with focus industry-region pairs, this paper examines how cross-border acquisitions have an effect, in terms of technological spillover collaboration, European industrial clusters. Adopting industry-regions pairs approach, study is based quantitative analysis 3039 regional clusters belonging to 262 regions...

Abstract Star inventors generate superior innovation outcomes. Their capacity to invent high-quality patents might be decisive beyond mere productivity. However, the relationship between quantitative and qualitative dimensions has not been exhaustively investigated. The equal odds baseline (EOB) framework can explicitly model this relationship. This work combines a theoretical for creative prod...

This paper overviews the data collection procedures and resulting for inventor ages associated death dates. We use information about inventors from patents (name location) search age date of publicly available online web directories build a scoring system to indicate quality that we collect. After applying variety heuristics robustness checks, are confident 1,508,676 with granted between 1976 2...

One of the major reasons why inventors are awarded patents by governments is they encourage R&D investments and commercialization of inventions. If the patent holder commercializes his invention, he has stronger incentives to retain the patent. The purpose here is to empirically analyze the relationship between commercialization and the renewal of patents. At the same time, I take into account ...

Independent inventors accounted for approximately half of all patents in Britain and Japan by 1930, despite the rise of the corporate economy and the spread of industrial R&D. A mixture of patent renewal and historical citations data reveals that the quality of independent invention was high. Active markets for inventions created incentives for independents, especially in large cities like Lond...

Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million US patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975-1994. The interaction of this preexi...

Under the dual goals of achieving carbon peak and neutralization, it is great practical significance to explore impact product information labeling on technological innovation. As an essential element in improving energy performance consumer products, energy-efficiency labels (EEL) have played a vital role government’s portfolio improvement, progress, emission mitigation. We estimate extent ind...