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Complementary Patents and Market Structure

Schmidt, Klaus M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

rates and reduce output as compared to non-integration. Horizontal integration of IP holders (or a patent pool) solves the …

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Can Post-Grant Reviews Improve Patent System Design? A Twin Study of US and European Patents

Graham, Stuart J.H.; Harhoff, Dietmar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper assesses the impact of adopting a post-grant review institution in the US patent system by comparing the … “opposition careers” of European Patent Office (EPO) equivalents of litigated US patents to those of a control group of EPO … employing these different methods in our data analysis. We find that EPO equivalents of US litigated patent applications are …

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Property Rights and Economic Development

Besley, Timothy J.; Ghatak, Maitreesh - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This chapter develops a unified analytical framework, drawing on and extending the existing literature on the subject, for studying the role of property rights in economic development. It addresses two fundamental and related questions concerning the relationship between property rights and...

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The de Soto Effect

Besley, Timothy J.; Ghatak, Maitreesh - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper explores the consequences of creating and improving property rights so that fixed assets can be used as collateral. This has become a cause célèbre of Hernando de Soto whose views are influential in debates about policy reform concerning property rights. Hence, we refer to the...

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Intellectual Property Rights and Efficient Firm Organization

Ponzetto, Giacomo AM - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

I provide a justification of intellectual property rights as a source of static efficiency gains in manufacturing, rather than dynamic benefits from greater innovation. I develop a property-rights model of a supply relationship with two dimensions of non- contractible investment. In equilibrium,...

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The Weightless Economy in Economic Development

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income---the growing weightless economy---influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ``distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey

Brusoni, Stefano; Crespi, Gustavo; Francoz, Dominique; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and...

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Venture Capital and Industrial ''Innovation''

Hirukawa, Masayuki; Ueda, Masako - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

impact on patent count at industry level, and this impact is larger than that of R&D expenditures. We confirm that this … measure of innovation alternative to patent count. Unlike the impact on patent count, we do not find that VC investment … and material. Therefore, our finding suggests that, at industry level, VC investment increases the patent propensity but …

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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market effects on the sales price. Preemptive acquisitions by incumbents are shown to stimulate the...

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Rational parasites

Benoit, Jean-Pierre; Galbiati, Roberto; Henry, Emeric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

show that investment can take place even without patent protection, as parasites limit their imitation to preserve the …

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