patents

Climate change in China is driving firms to innovate–not just where heat strikes, but through shifting demand across the economy.

Geographic patent pools boost drug licensing and commercialisation, expanding access to life-saving drugs in developing countries.

Lower-income countries have benefitted more from the increase in technology transfers due to globalisation

Patents from recognised hubs confer benefits to foreign patent holders beyond market protection, such as valuable global signals of quality and credibility

The generation and diffusion of scientific knowledge and technology are assumed to be drivers of modern economic growth, but there is a lack of firm empirical evidence of this. This column uses the first detailed data on the density of engineers in t...