Mobility, Productivity and Patent Value for Asian Prolific Inventors: China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, 1975 – 2010

William Latham, Christian Le Bas () and Dmitry Volodin ()
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Christian Le Bas: Université de Lyon, Lyon, F-69007, France ; CNRS, GATE Lyon St Etienne,F-69130 Ecully, France
Dmitry Volodin: HDR Inc., Silver Spring, MD, USA

No 1227, Working Papers from Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon

Abstract: We provide new insights into the role of individual inventors in innovation. We focus our analysis on prolific inventors in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. We analyse patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to thousands of inventors from those countries between 1975 and 2010 to investigate the role that mobility plays in the behaviour of prolific inventors. We hypothesize that mobility affects: (1) the productivity of prolific inventors and, (2) the value of their inventions. We compare findings for each of the countries with those for inventors in North America, Western Europe and Australia & New Zealand.

Keywords: Innovation; prolific inventor; inventor productivity and mobility; patent (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 J24 O15 O31 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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