Policy Makers and the R&D patent relationship. Bruegel policy contribution, May 2008 (2008)
Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno, De Rassenfosse, Gaetan.
Patent-based indicators at the country level are frequently used to assess countries’ innovation performance or effort. Yet they are often said to reflect the propensity to patent rather than...
Europe's R&D: Missing the Wrong Targets? Bruegel policy brief 2008/03, February 2003 (2008)
Summary. Europe is not delivering on its Lisbon agenda commitment to increase its R&D-to-GDP ratio to three percent by 2010. This is worrying, not only because Europe seems unable to reach an...
Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno, Van Zeebroeck, Nicolas
The renewal of patents and their geographical scope for protection constitute two essential dimensions in a patent’s life, and probably the most frequently used patent value indicators. The...
Per un Pugno di Dollari: A first Look at the Price Elasticity of Patents
De Rassenfosse, Gaétan, Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno
This paper analyzes the role of patent filing fees requested by the member states of the European Patent Convention (EPC). We provide a first empirical evidence showing that the fee elasticity of the...
Assessing the Foreign Control of Production of Technology: The Case of a Small Open Economy
Cincera, Michele, Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno, Veugelers, Reinhilde
International R&D activities have grown significantly over the last two decades. Both the number of actors involved, as well as the importance of the technological activity carried out abroad, has...
The Cost Factor in Patent Systems
Francois, Didier, Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno
The objective of this paper is to assess whether and to what extent the cost of patenting affects the demand for patents. The empirical analysis, which focuses on the patent systems of the USA,...
Archontopoulos, Eugenio, Guellec, Dominique, Stevnsborg, Niels, Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno, Van Zeebroeck, Nicolas
The joint increase in the number and size of patents filed around the world puts patent systems under pressure. This paper addresses issues in measuring the voluminosity of patent applications and...
Claiming More: The Increased Voluminosity of Patent Applications and its Determinants
Guellec, Dominique, Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno, Van Zeebroeck, Nicolas
The joint increase in the number and size of patents filed around the world puts the patent system under pressure. This paper analyses the sources of this surge in number of claims and pages of...
Patent Validation at the Country Level - The Role of Fees and Translation costs
Harhoff, Dietmar, Hoisl, Karin, Reichl, Bettina, Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno
One feature of the European patent system that is heavily criticized nowadays is related to its complex fragmentation and the induced cost burden for applicants. Once a patent is granted by the EPO,...
A Note on The Drivers of R&D Intensity
Mathieu, Azèle, Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the extent to which technological specialization influences the observed R&D intensity of countries, and hence would bias the well-known country rankings...
A Policy Insight into the R&D-Patent Relationship
De Rassenfosse, Gaétan, Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno
This paper investigates whether patent counts can be taken as indicators of macroeconomic innovation performance. The empirical model explicitly accounts for the two components of patenting output:...
The Economic Impact of Venture Capital
Romain, Astrid, Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno
This paper attempts to evaluate the macroeconomic impact of venture capital (VC). We test the assumption that VC is similar in several respects to business R&D performed by large firms and therefore...
The Determinants of Venture Capital : Additional Evidence
Romain, Astrid, Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno
This paper attempts to identify and evaluate the main determinants of venture capital (VC). We develop a theoretical model where macroeconomic conditions, technological opportunity, and the...
Filing Strategies and Patent Value
Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno, Van Zeebroeck, Nicolas
This paper aims at contributing to the literature on the determinants of patent value. First, it puts forward a new potential class of value determinants in the form of filing strategies...