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A Review of the Pharmaceutical Industry of Canada
N, Lalitha - eSocialSciences - 2008
Three important aspects of the Canadian pharmaceutical industry-viz. compulsory licence, price control on patented drugs and the R&D scenario. Unlike other developed countries, which have adopted the route of providing higher Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection to promote the growth of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487733
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The hold-up problem, innovations, and limited liability
Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
An inventor can invest research effort to come up with an innovation. Once an innovation is made, a contract is …
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791837
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Offshoring and Product Innovation
Naghavi, Alireza; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We propose an endogenous growth model with offshoring to investigate its effects on product innovation and growth in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123630
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Technology in Growth
Keely, Louise; Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
We review the role of R&D in endogenous growth theory, and describe extant empirical research – macro and micro – bearing on R&D as an engine of growth. Taking R&D to be key, while recognizing the significance of economic incentives, emphasizes knowledge as an economic object and, more...
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Contract Enforcement, Comparative Advantage and Long-Run Growth
Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
-country dynamic Ricardian model with endogenous innovation and hold-up problems, the value chain consists of two activities …, innovation and production. Entry in the market happens through R&D and entrants face two decisions. The 'location decision … perform innovation and production within the same vertically integrated structure or not. In this framework, the quality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498068
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Trade Secret Laws, Labour Mobility and Innovations
Motta, Massimo; Rønde, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
We show that when the researcher’s (observable but not contractible) contribution to innovation is crucial, a covenant …
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Innovation, Spillovers and Venture Capital Contracts
Dessí, Roberta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Innovative start-ups and venture capitalists are highly clustered, benefiting from localized spillovers: Silicon Valley is perhaps the best example. There is also substantial geographical variation in venture capital contracts: California contracts are more 'incomplete'. This paper explores the...
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Outsourcing, Contracts and Innovation Networks
Naghavi, Alireza; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
innovation. In so doing, we model an industry in which R&D is performed by independent research labs and outsourcing production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661520
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High-Tech Clusters, Technology Spillovers and Trade Secret Laws
Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
simple model of cumulative innovation is presented where technology spillovers arise endogenously through labour mobility. It … to develop an innovation is neither very high nor very low. Trade secret protection based on punitive damages is, except …
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