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Patents, War and Peace. The resilience of the international patent order through the First World War

By the end of the 19th century, an international order had emerged for patents, allowing business actors to use patents in many countries concurrently, and thus supporting a new phase in the development of industrial capitalism. Centered on Europe in spite ...

2023

Decentralising the patent system

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Kyle William Higham

Modern patent systems are slow, inefficient, expensive, and may result in outcomes that actively harm technological progress. This paper proposes a substantive re-think of these systems and lays a foundation upon which practical solutions can be built. Man ...

ELSEVIER INC2021

A Politics of Intellectual Property: The French Revolution and the Creation of a Patent System

Jérôme Baudry

Our understanding of the rise of intellectual property has been highly influenced by the tools and concepts of economic history and the lens of the Industrial Revolution. Looking at the case of France, this article examines the cultural and ideological ori ...

2020

A Politics of Intellectual Property Creating a Patent System in Revolutionary France

Jérôme Baudry

Economic interpretations, in particular the lens of the Industrial Revolution, have strongly influenced our understanding of the rise of intellectual property. This article examines the political origins of the 1791 patent law in France, which is usually s ...

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS2020

The geography of duplicated inventions: evidence from patent citations

Julio Diego Salvador Raffo, Stefano Horst Baruffaldi

The geography of duplicated inventions: evidence from patent citations. Regional Studies. Innovators often claim inventions that turn out to duplicate, at least in part, existing ones. This paper advances the claim that for recent and upcoming inventions, ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

Three essays on the role of proximity in science and innovation

Stefano Horst Baruffaldi

This thesis proposes three studies that provide novel empirical evidence on how different types of proximity can affect innovation and science activities through various mechanisms and in different contexts. In the first study (second chapter of this thesi ...

EPFL2015

Selection bias in innovation studies: A simple test

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

The study of the innovative output of organizations often relies on a count of patents filed at one single office of reference such as the European Patent Office (EPO). Yet, not all organizations file their patents at the EPO, raising the specter of a sele ...

2014

Do firms face a trade-off between the quantity and the quality of their inventions?

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

This paper presents evidence that firms face a trade-off between the quantity and the quality of their research output. The econometric analysis uses survey data on patent applicants at the European Patent Office and addresses the identification problem ca ...

2013

How SMEs exploit their intellectual property assets: Evidence from survey data

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

This paper seeks to understand how motives to patent affect the use of the patent portfolio with a particular focus on motives aimed at the monetization of intellectual property. The analysis relies on data from an international survey conducted by the Eur ...

2012

Per un pugno di dollari: A first look at the price elasticity of patents

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

This paper analyses the role of patent-filing fees requested by the member states of the European Patent Convention (EPC). We provide first empirical evidence showing that the fee elasticity of the demand for priority applications is negative and significa ...

2007

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