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Inefficiencies in technology transfer: theory and empirics

Allain, Marie-Laure; Henry, Emeric; Kyle, Margaret K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Markets for technology can promote innovation by allowing for division of labor in research and development. Some firms …

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Market Size and Pharmaceutical Innovation

de Mouzon, Oliver; Dubois, Pierre; Scott Morton, Fiona; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper quantifies the relationship between market size and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. We estimate … the elasticity of innovation, as measured by the number of new chemical entities appearing on the market for a given … the hypothesis that innovation in pharmaceuticals is becoming more difficult and expensive over time, as costs of …

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Innovation and Market Structure: An Empirical Evaluation of the 'Bounds Approach' in the Chemical Industry

Uribe, Marín; Luis, Pedro; Siotis, Georges - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper empirically tests the ‘bounds approach’ to industry structure proposed by Sutton ((1991), (1998)). To carry out this task, we focus on the chemical industry. Part of the novelty in this exercise is that we work on the finest possible level of disaggregation. Also, we identify...

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The Dye Famine and its Aftermath: Knowledge Diffusion and Entry

Genesove, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

of German dyes to the United States during World War I and the immediate post-War period, and the subsequent re-entry of …

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Patents and the Global Diffusion of New Drugs

Cockburn, Iain M; Lanjouw, Jean O; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper studies how patent rights and price regulation affect how fast new drugs are launched in different countries, using newly constructed data on launches of 642 new drugs in 76 countries for the period 1983-2002, and information on the duration and content of patent and price control...

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Waiting to imitate: on the dynamic pricing of knowledge

Henry, Emeric; Ponce, Carlos - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We study the problem of an inventor who brings to the market an innovation that can be legally copied. Imitators may … 'enter' the market by copying the innovation at a cost or by buying from the inventor the knowledge necessary to reproduce …

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Spreading the Word: Geography, Policy and University Knowledge Diffusion

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Using new data on citations to university patents and scientific publications, and measures of distance based on Google maps, we study how geography affects university knowledge diffusion. We show that knowledge flows from patents are localized in two respects: they decline sharply with distance...

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Patent Thickets, Judicial Enforcement and the Market for Innovation: Theory and Evidence from Patent Litigation

Galasso, Alberto; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We study how fragmentation of patent rights ('patent thickets') and the formation of the Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affected the duration of patent disputes, and thus the speed of technology diffusion through licensing. We develop a model of patent litigation which predicts...

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'Essential' Patents, FRAND Royalties and Technological Standards

Dewatripont, Mathias; Legros, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

In this paper we abandon the usual assumption that patents bring known benefits to the industry or that their benefits are known to all parties. When royalty payments are increasing in one’s patent portfolio, private information about the quality of patents leads to a variety of distortions,...

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Complementary Patents and Market Structure

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

complements problem but not the double mark-up problem. Vertical integration discourages entry and reduces innovation incentives …, while horizontal integration always encourages entry and innovation. …

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