Patent–standard similarity
Semantic similarity measures for more than 200 million patent–standard pairs from ETSI, IEEE, and ITU-T.
Fabian Gaessler
I am a Ramón y Cajal Research Professor (tenured) in the Department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
In my work, I empirically examine innovation, intellectual property, science, and technological change.
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.
- 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