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Import competition from and outsourcing to China: a curse or blessing for firms?

Mion, Giordano; Zhu, Linke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

China is different from both other low-wage and OECD countries. Industry-level import competition and firm-level outsourcing … to China reduce firm employment growth and induce skill upgrading. In contrast, industry-level imports have no effect on … Belgian firm survival, while firm-level outsourcing of finished goods to China even increased firm's probability of survival …

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Venture Capital, Patenting, and Usefulness of Innovations

Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We analyze incentives to develop entrepreneurial ideas for venture capitalists (VCs) and incumbent firms. If VCs are sufficiently better at judging an idea's value and if it is sufficiently more costly to patent low than high value ideas, VCs acquire valuable ideas, develop them beyond the level...

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To Be Financed or Not… - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing

Haeussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Mueller, Elisabeth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...

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High-Tech Clusters, Technology Spillovers and Trade Secret Laws

Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We analyse firms’ incentives to cluster in an industrial district to benefit from reciprocal technology spillovers. A simple model of cumulative innovation is presented where technology spillovers arise endogenously through labour mobility. It is shown that firms’ incentives to cluster are...

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Banks versus Venture Capital

Ueda, Masako - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Why do some start-up firms raise funds from banks and others from venture capitalists? To answer this question, I study a model in which the venture capitalist can evaluate the entrepreneur’s project more accurately than the bank but can also threaten to steal it from the entrepreneur. The...

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Determinants of Opposition Against EPO Patent Grants - The Case of Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals

Harhoff, Dietmar; Reitzig, Markus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We analyse the determinants of opposition to biotechnology and pharmaceutical patents granted by the European Patent Office between 1978–96. Opposition can be considered an early form of patent validity challenge suit. In our sample, 8.6% of the patents are attacked in opposition proceedings....

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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledge-intensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights...

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Intellectual Property Provisions in North-South Trade Agreements

Hoekman, Bernard; Saggi, Kamal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Using a repeated game approach, this paper models a North-South trade agreement under which North offers South improved market access (via a tariff reduction) if South agrees to prevent local imitation by strengthening its protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs). We show that such an...

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Free Trade and Protection of Intellectual Property Rights: Can We Have One Without the Other?

Goh, Ai Ting; Olivier, Jacques - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper is concerned with the interaction between trade policies and the protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). In particular, it investigates, within the framework of a general equilibrium model with endogenous growth, the welfare implications of an international agreement on one...

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From Thought to Practice: Appropriation and Endogenous Market Structure with Imperfect Intellectual Property Rights

Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Razin, Ronny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We address the problem faced by innovators who have an idea for a marketable product but must hire employees to bring the product to the market. Information leakage implies that newly-hired employees become informed of the idea and may attempt to bring the product to the market themselves. We...

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