This paper explores whether the patent law and intellectual property rights (IPR) system have resulted in innovation in … which factors would explain innovation in China. We find the main determinants of patents to be R&D expenditure and foreign … laws in China have been associated with innovation that has accompanied economic growth despite imperfections in the legal …

Since the seminal work of Archibugi and Michie (1995) on the globalization of innovation, several authors have tried to … understand the complex relationship between innovation and internationalization, mainly using firm or sectoral level data …. However, most of them tend to focus on just one form of globalization of innovation – exploitation of technology, research …

&D centres in developing countries. The existing and rather limited literature on globalization of innovation provides four …/regional system of innovation. The empirical research presented in this paper reveals that none of these arguments can fully explain … innovation systems framework. …

globalization of innovation activities and more specifically, on the surge of global innovation networks (GINs). However, hitherto … well as their main characteristics. In this paper, we propose a taxonomy of global innovation networks that takes into … of global innovation networks, observed in seven European countries as well as Brazil, China, India and South Africa. It …