Overview
This project aims at deepening our understanding of the innovation process in Japan from an international perspective and at providing analysis serving the evidence-based innovation policy making, exploiting the two rounds of large scale survey of inventors as well as complementary statistics. The study focuses on the design of the intellectual property system for innovation (institutional sources of the variation of patent values in the United States and Japan, employee inventor rights, disclosure as knowledge source, and patent system as seen by startups and foreign firms), research and development (R&D) productivity (inventor life-cycle productivity, patents as a cluster, standard-based innovation), and university-industry collaborations (effects of the acquisition of legal person status by national universities, matching between industrial innovation and higher education). The project pursues international research collaborations with leading scholars abroad.
June 10, 2013 - May 31, 2015
Major Research Results
2015
RIETI Discussion Papers
- 15-E-113
"Combining Knowledge and Capabilities across Borders and Nationalities: Evidence from the inventions applied through PCT" (TSUKADA Naotoshi and NAGAOKA Sadao) - 15-E-105
"The Use of Science for Inventions and its Identification: Patent level evidence matched with survey" (NAGAOKA Sadao and YAMAUCHI Isamu) - 15-E-096
"Cognitive Distances in Prior Art Search by the Triadic Patent Offices: Empirical evidence from international search reports" (WADA Tetsuo) - 15-E-072
"Use of Grace Periods and Their Impact on Knowledge Flow: Evidence from Japan" (NAGAOKA Sadao and NISHIMURA Yoichiro) - 15-E-071
"Monetary Incentives for Corporate Inventors: Intrinsic motivation, project selection and inventive performance" (ONISHI Koichiro, OWAN Hideo and NAGAOKA Sadao)
