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3. Patent Citation Data in Social Science Research: Overview and Best Practices

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

The last 2 decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of patent citation data in social science research. Facilitated by digitization of the patent data and increasing computing power, a community of practice has grown up that has developed meth ...

Wiley2017

Why do patents facilitate trade in technology? Testing the disclosure and appropriation effects

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

Evidence suggests that patents facilitate technology transactions but the reasons for the effect are unclear. Patents may assist trade in technology by either: (i) protecting buyers against the expropriation of the idea (the 'appropriation effect'); or (ii ...

Elsevier2016

On the origins of the worldwide surge in patenting: An industry perspective on the R&D-patent relationship

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

This article decomposes the R&D-patent relationship at the industry level to shed light on the sources of the worldwide surge in patent applications. The empirical analysis is based on a unique data set that includes five patent indicators computed for 18 ...

2014

Inventor disambiguation is an increasingly important issue for users of patent data. We propose and test a number of refinements to the original Massacrator algorithm, originally proposed by Lissoni et al. (The keins database on academic inventors: methodo ...

Springer2014

The worldwide count of priority patents: A new indicator of inventive activity

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

This paper describes a new patent-based indicator of inventive activity. The indicator is based on counting all the priority patent applications filed by a country's inventors, regardless of the patent office in which the application is filed, and can ther ...

2013

This paper reviews the economic literature on the role of fees in patent systems. Two main research questions are usually addressed: the impact of patent fees on the behavior of applicants and the question of optimal fees. Studies in the former group confi ...

2013

Patent-free Innovation: a review of economic works including the analysis of a recent work in the field of experimental economics

Dominique Foray

This article is inspired by the observation of a massive change of opinion on the part of economists regarding the question of the patent as a mechanism allowing an economically acceptable solution to be found to the so-called “imperfect appropriability” p ...

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

Three Essays on Navigating the Stages in New Venture Creation

Jana Thiel

Starting a new venture is arguably an exciting journey into previously unknown territories. Since entrepreneurs, through their economic activities, are central to social prosperity, academic research has a strong interest to understand who those entreprene ...

EPFL2012

Clean Energy Innovation: Sources of Technical and Commercial Breakthroughs

Kenneth Younge

Low-carbon energy innovation and implementation is essential to combat climate change, promote economic competitiveness, and achieve energy security. Our study of clean energy patenting in the United States is undertaken to elicit fundamental trends and im ...

National Renewable Energy Laboratoy2011