Socially and environmentally responsible investing is becoming the benchmark in financial
markets. Promoting emerging industries' environmental performance, social responsibility …

ABSTRACT A proliferation of studies has been carried out on patent value indexes
encompassing the most different viewpoints and considering different scale. However, the …

Patents as intangible assets are subjects of burgeoning empirical research. However, there
is limited knowledge of how patent quality and patent value can be conceptualized …

Patents and patent portfolios are valuable assets. Companies need a conceptual structure to
assess the value of their patent portfolio. This paper develops a practical and reproducible …

This study provides one of the first systematic and direct assessments of the value of China's
inventions and examines the strategic factors influencing their value, using patents granted …

Technology life cycle analysis plays a crucial role in setting up investment-related strategies.
The dominant approach to technology life cycle analysis utilizes curve fitting techniques to …

Because most patent holders are likely to retain their patents only when the profits created
are larger than the maintenance fee, the patent lifetime has been used as a proxy of a …

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of patent family characteristics of triadic
patents. We test specific features of triadic patent families to highlight common correlation …

Patent applications have surged in China over the past two decades. Has the application
boom been accompanied by a simultaneous drop in the value (quality) of the patents? Our …

Patents are essential for university technology diffusion to society; however, patent quality in
universities, especially in Latin America, has been poorly studied. We create a quality index …