Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey

Dietmar Harhoff and Karin Hoisl

Discussion Papers in Business Administration from University of Munich, Munich School of Management

Abstract: Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and economic value of the patents.

Keywords: inventor; patent; incentives; innovation; patent system; patent value (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 O31 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2006
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