Dominique Guellec

Patent Systems for Encouraging Innovation: Lessons from Economic Analysis (2007)

Encaoua, David, Guellec, Dominique, Martínez, Catalina

Economic theory views patents as policy instruments aimed at fostering innovation and diffusion. Three major implications are drawn regarding current policy debates. First, patents may not be the...

Patent Systems for Encouraging Innovation: Lessons from Economic Analysis (2007)

Encaoua, David, Guellec, Dominique, Martínez, Catalina

Economic theory views patents as policy instruments aimed at fostering innovation and diffusion. Three major implications are drawn regarding current policy debates. First, patents may not be the...

Recherche-développement et croissance de la productivité Analyse des données d'un panel de 16 pays de l'OCDE (2001)

Guellec, Dominique

Cette étude analyse les effets de long terme de différents types de R-D sur la croissance de la productivité totale des facteurs, qui sont les effets « spillover » de la R-D. Les estimations...

Le soutien des pouvoirs publics stimule-t-il la R-D privée? (1997)

Guellec, Dominique

Cet article analyse l'incidence de la R-D financée par les pouvoirs publics et des incitations fiscales sur les investissements privés en R-D. L'analyse couvre 17 pays de l'OCDE sur la période...

Causes des fluctuations des dépenses de R-D: une analyse quantitative (1997)

Guellec, Dominique, Ioannidis, Evangelos

Les dépenses de R-D des entreprises ont connu un tassement dans la plupart des pays de l'OCDE à la fin des années 80 et au début des années 90, après plusieurs décennies de progression...

Claiming more: the increased voluminosity of patent applications and its determinants.

Nicolas Van Zeebroeck, Bruno Van Pottelsberghe, Dominique Guellec

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...

When small is beautiful: measuring the evolution and consequences of the voluminosity of patent applications at the EPO

Eugenio Archontopoulos, Dominique Guellec, Niels Stevnsborg, Bruno Van Pottelsberghe, Nicolas Van Zeebroeck

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...

When Small is Beautiful: Measuring the Evolution and Consequences of the Voluminosity of Patent Applications at the EPO

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...

From R&D to Productivity Growth: Do the Institutional Settings and the Source of Funds of R&D Matter?

Dominique Guellec, Bruno Van Pottelsberghe

This paper presents estimates of the long-term impact of various sources of knowledge (R&D performed by the business sector, the public sector and foreign firms) on multifactor productivity growth of...

Patents and Academic Research: A State of the Art.

Nicolas Van Zeebroeck, Bruno Van Pottelsberghe, Dominique Guellec

The sharp increase in academic patenting over the past 20 years raises important issues regarding the generation and diffusion of academic knowledge. Three key questions may be raised in this...

From R&D to Productivity Growth: Do the Institutional Settings and the Source of Funds of R&D Matter?

Dominique Guellec

This paper presents estimates of the long-term impact of various sources of knowledge (R&D performed by the business sector, the public sector and foreign firms) on multifactor productivity growth of...

The Value of Patents and Patenting Strategies: Countries and Technology Areas Patterns

Dominique Guellec

This paper explores the determinants of the probability for a patent application to result in a grant (as opposed to being rejected by the patent office or withdrawn by the patentee). A grant is...

THE IMPACT OF PUBLIC R&D EXPENDITURE ON BUSINESS R&D

DOMINIQUE GUELLEC

This paper attempts to quantify the aggregate net effect of government funding on business R&D in 17 OECD Member countries over the past two decades. Grants, procurement, tax incentives and direct...

Organizational Change and Skill Accumulation.

Caroli, Eve, Greenan, Nathalie, Guellec, Dominique

We model the links between skills and changes in work organization. As the proportion of skilled workers increases, the economy travels through a sequence of organizational equilibria. We show that...