Patent–standard similarity
Semantic similarity measures for more than 200 million patent–standard pairs from ETSI, IEEE, and ITU-T.
Fabian Gaessler
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
In my work, I empirically examine innovation, intellectual property, science, and technological change.
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Upcoming
Presenting at the Summer School on Data and Algorithms for Science, Technology & Innovation Studies (SKEMA, Nice) in September and the InnoPat conference (ZEW Mannheim) in November, with an invited seminar at KU Leuven the same month.
Jun 2026
Awarded a Leonardo Grant as Principal Investigator for the project “Mapping the Problem Space of Innovation.”
Feb 2026
“Filling the Gap: The Consequences of Collaborator Loss in Corporate R&D” is published in Management Science.
Current research
All current researchLimits to the Division of Innovative Labor: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry
How firms and academic researchers respond differently to changes in demand for pharmaceutical research.
What to Buy When Forum Shopping?
Evidence on how plaintiffs select courts in German patent litigation.
Selected publications
All publicationsFilling the Gap: The Consequences of Collaborator Loss in Corporate R&D
How organizations respond when inventors lose internal or external collaborators.
The Returns to Physical Capital in Knowledge Production
What laboratory disasters reveal about specialized equipment and scientific productivity.
Patents, Freedom to Operate, and Follow-on Innovation
How patent invalidation changes subsequent innovation.
Research data
Documentation and accessInventor biographies
Employment histories and inventive activity for more than 150,000 inventors in Germany from 1980 to 2014.
About
Alongside academic research, I work with firms, public institutions, and other organizations on empirical questions involving innovation, intellectual property, technology, and data.
My research is generously funded by a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship, a research grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and a Leonardo Grant from the BBVA Foundation.
- Affiliated Professor at the UPF Barcelona School of Management
- Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics
- Affiliated Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
- Based in
- Barcelona, Spain