1st Edition

Patent Management and Valuation The Strategic and Geographical Dimension

Edited By Grid Thoma Copyright 2017
310 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

Research on patent valuation has become increasingly important in academic and policy circles in the last few decades. In part, this is the outcome of the wide consensus that innovation is a crucial ingredient for growth at various levels. On the other hand, there has also been an overcoming of growth models unilaterally focused on technological-oriented approaches. This book presents novel and... Read more

Part 1: The Valuation of Patent Assets

1. The Market Value of Patents and R&D

2. Composite Value Index of Patent Indicators

Part 2: The Strategic Dimension of Patent Valuation

3. Combined IP Strategies and the Valuation of Patent Premium

4. Patent Valuation of a General Purpose Technology: An Analysis of Financial Patents and Business Methods

with Bronwyn H. Hall and Salvatore Torrisi

5. Commercialization Strategies of a General Purpose Technology

Part 3: The Geographic Dimension of Patent Valuation

6. The Determinants of the Localization of Knowledge Spillovers

7. Inventor Location and the Globalization of R&D

with Dietmar Harhoff

8. The Value of Chinese Patenting

Biography

Grid Thoma is Assistant Professor with Tenure of Economics and Management at University of Camerino, Italy.

"Professor Thoma provides a wonderful entrance into the strategic and geographic elements of patent valuation. His well-researched book offers a more complex, theoretical model that would help a range of legal and management audiences to more fully ground their future patent valuation."Kali Murray, Marquette University, USA