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Do Stronger Patents Induce More Innovation? Evidence from the 1988 Japanese Patent Law Reforms
Sakakibara, Mariko - 1999
Does an expansion of patent scope induce more innovative effort by firms? This article provides evidence on this question by examining firm responses to the Japanese patent reforms of 1988. Interviews with practitioners suggest the reforms significantly expanded the scope of patent rights in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471730
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Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment : Theory and Evidence
Branstetter, Lee - 2007
which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts that IPR reform in the South …, Northern resources will be reallocated to R&D, driving an increase in the global rate of innovation. We test the model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465621
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Inventing in the Shadow of the Patent System : Evidence from 19th-Century Patents and Prizes for Technological Innovations
Khan, B. Zorina - 2014
. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation … unpredictable, and was unrelated to such proxies for the productivity of the innovation as inventive capital or the commercial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457935