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Cumulative Innovation, Growth and Welfare-Improving Patent Policy

Chor, Davin; Lai, Edwin L.-C. - CESifo - 2013

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …

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Universal Intellectual Property Rights: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara; Paillacar, Rodrigo - CESifo - 2013

own innovation. The analysis predicts that the willingness to enforce IPR is U-shaped in a country GDP: small … enforcement of IPR yields a higher level of innovation and global welfare only if the developing country does not innovate. A …

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Cutting too Close? Design Protection and Innovation in Fashion Goods

Hackett, Petal Jean - CESifo - 2012

Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...

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Dynamic Protection of Innovations through Patents and Trade Secrets

Belleflamme, Paul; Bloch, Paul - CESifo - 2013

This paper analyzes the optimal protection strategy for an innovator of a complex innovation who faces the risk of … imitation by a competitor. We suppose that the innovation can be continuously fragmented into sub-innovations. We characterize … fraction of the innovation once. We also study the optimal dynamic patenting policy in a soft novelty regime, when the …

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Competition, Imitation, and R&D Productivity in a Growth Model with Sector-Specific Patent Protection

Mosel, Malte - CESifo - 2010

intricate reverse engineering are. Unlike similar step-by-step innovation models of economic growth, the model assumes Cournot …

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Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Transfer and Exports in Developing Countries

Yang, Lei; Maskus, Keith E. - CESifo - 2008

We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break intoexport markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...

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Would Global Patent Protection be too Weak without International Coordination?

Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Yan, Isabel K.-M. - CESifo - 2011

This paper analyzes the setting of national patent policies in the global economy. In the standard model with free trade and social-welfare-maximizing governments à la Grossman and Lai (2004), cross-border positive policy externalities induce individual countries to select patent strengths that...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Product Complexity, and the Organization of Multinational Firms

Naghavi, Alireza; Spies, Julia; Toubal, Farid - CESifo - 2013

This paper studies how the Intellectual Property Right (IPR) regime in destination countries influences the way multinationals structure the international organization of their production. In particular, we explore how multinationals divide tasks of different complexities across countries with...

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How Many Patents Does it Take to Signal Innovation Quality?

Comino, Stefano; Graziano, Clara - CESifo - 2014

In this paper, we offer a novel explanation to the surge in patenting bserved during the last years. With low patentability standards at PTOs (Patent and Trademark Offices awarding so-called bad patents), not only “false innovators” have the chance of being granted patents but also, and more...

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Rethinking the Concept of Long-Run Economic Growth

Groth, Christian; Koch, Karl-Josef; Steger, Thomas - CESifo - 2006

This paper argues that growth theory needs a more general “regularity” concept than that of exponential growth. This offers the possibility of considering a richer set of parameter combinations than in standard growth models. Allowing zero population growth in the Jones (1995) model serves...

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