patent

For Chinese firms, gaining patents for innovations may be a promising way to gain influence in the international arena, according to HKUST’s Jiatao Li and a co-researcher. Such patents act as a powerful signal of technologic ...

We explore how organizations exercise a significant degree of agency when interacting with the law. Using data on patentinfringementlitigation,we investigate how social structures among corporate plaintiffs’ lawyers and fede ...

This paper identifies the causal effect of U.S. multinationals’ technology shocks on their subsidiaries’ and nearby domestic firms’ productivity in China. By combining firm-level data from both the U.S. and China ...

We develop a patent analysis approach to discover types of IT innovations and examine their technological and economic impacts. Our empirical investigation is based on 73,120 patents in the medical devices industry filed between 1 ...