Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

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International patent protection and trade: Transaction-level evidence?

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

We report a hitherto undocumented causal mechanism of how patent protection affects exports. The empirical analysis leverages unique data on the worldwide patenting and exporting activities at the product level for the universe of French firms. Exploiting ...

ELSEVIER2022

Scientific rewards for biomedical specialization are large and persistent

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Orion B Penner, Kyle William Higham

Background While specialization plays an essential role in how scientific research is pursued, we understand little about its effects on a researcher's impact and career. In particular, the extent to which one specializes within their chosen fields likely ...

BMC2022

Technology Protectionism and the Patent System: Evidence from China

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri

Governments have strong incentives to allow their inventors to free ride on foreign technologies. They can achieve this result by discriminating against foreigners in the patent system-by refusing to grant foreigners a patent for their inventions. Internat ...

WILEY2022

Low-Quality Patents in the Eye of the Beholder: Evidence from Multiple Examiners

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

A low-quality patent system threatens to slow the pace of technological progress. Concerns about low patent quality are supported by estimates from litigation studies suggesting that most US patents granted should not have been issued. We propose a new mod ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2021

Buyers' role in innovation procurement: Evidence from US military R&D contracts

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri

This study provides the first quantification of buyers' role in the outcome of R&D procurement contracts. We combine together four data sources on US federal R&D contracts, follow-on patented inventions, federal public workforce characteristics, and percep ...

WILEY2021

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

Imputation of missing information in worldwide patent data

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

We present a general method for imputing missing information in the Worldwide Patent Statistical Database (PATSTAT) and make the resulting datasets publicly available. The PATSTAT database is the de facto standard for academic research using patent data. C ...

2021

Patent Quality: Towards a Systematic Framework for Analysis and Measurement

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Kyle William Higham

The quality of novel technological innovations is extremely variable, and the ability to measure innovation quality is essential to sensible, evidence-based policy. Patents, an often vital precursor to a commercialised innovation, share this heterogeneous ...

ELSEVIER2021

COVID-19 : Insights from innovation economists

Dominique Foray, Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Omar Ballester Gonzalez, Gabriele Pellegrino, Charles Chadi Ayoubi, Gabriele Cristelli, George Abi Younes, Ling Zhou, Matthias David van den Heuvel

The present document provides the take of innovation economists on the COVID-19 pandemic. It targets the general public and focuses on questions related to the Science, Technology, and Innovation ecosystem. It provides a reading of current real-world devel ...

2020

Wanted: A standard for virtual patent marking

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Kyle William Higham

Patent marking is used by patentees to provide a form of notice to the public about the existence of a patent and can increase damages awarded in cases of infringement. Historically, marking is done by listing the associated patents on the product they cov ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2020

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