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Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

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Geocoding of worldwide patent data

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

The dataset provides geographic coordinates for inventor and applicant locations in 18.8 million patent documents spanning over more than 30 years. The geocoded data are further allocated to the corresponding countries, regions and cities. When the address ...

2019

The procurement of innovation by the U.S. government

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri

The U.S. government invests more than $50 billion per year in R&D procurement but we know little about the outcomes of these investments. We have traced all the patents arising from government funding since the year 2000. About 1.5 percent of all R&D procu ...

2019

On the price elasticity of demand for trademarks

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

One underexplored factor directly affecting firms' use of trademarks relates to the fees associated with obtaining a mark. This paper provides econometric estimates of the fee elasticity of demand for trademark applications. Using a panel of monthly intern ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2019

Are Foreigners Treated Equally under the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement?

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement, administered by the World Trade Organization, ensures the smooth functioning of the international patent system. It promises among other things that local and foreign firms are treated in ...

UNIV CHICAGO PRESS2019

R&D offshoring and home industry productivity

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

Offshoring research and development (R&D) commonly invokes concerns regarding the loss of high value jobs and a hollowing out of technological capabilities, but it can also benefit domestic firms by enabling them to tap into the global technological fronti ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2019

Getting Started with PATSTAT Register

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

This article provides a technical introduction to the PATSTAT Register database, which contains bibliographical, procedural and legal status data on patent applications handled by the European Patent Office. It presents eight MySQL queries that cover some ...

Wiley2017

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

Commercialization Strategy and IPO Underpricing

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

This paper studies the interplay between two defining features of technology-based firms: licensing as a commercialization strategy and the reliance on equity financing. Within the context of an IPO, we argue that the technology commercialization strategy ...

Elsevier2017

An assessment of how well we account for intangibles

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

Estimates of intangible capital stock are of prime importance for accurate measurement of productivity growth. Aggregate intangible capital stock is usually estimated using the so-called Corrado-Hulten-Sichel (CHS) new growth accounting framework. Yet this ...

Oxford University Press2017

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