culture, institutions and technology matter in the development of IPR protection policy even more than traditional variables …

cumulative innovations and the impact of possible competition between rival software development teams are considered. …

When the home country introduces a patent law after the winner of the patent race is known the country's welfare may … rise only if the domestic firm wins. If the home country decides before the patent race ends, the welfare may be increased …

of the Combrain will be to identify,plan&derive implementation methods for Basic Needs;Domestic Investment,Savings,Technology …

play a role in the contemporaneous evolution of innovation in a broad cross section of countries today. Our results …, while 'home grown' innovation is more sensitive to internal structural and institutional factors. …

technology flows. It uses information from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) collected by the French Service des Statistiques …Patent citation data are used in a growing body of economics and business research on technological diffusion. Research …. “Forward” citations (citations to the firm’s patents made by other patents) have been interpreted as a measure of the knowledge …

issue, we build a model in which the value of an innovation depends both on the type of innovation implemented (product …, process) and on the existence of a patent protection or not. We obtain a three-equation model that links the values of product … and process innovations to the value of patent protection. This model and the feature of the data imply the estimation of …

. The motivation for using market value equation to price knowledge assets is discusssed and the theory behind this equation … is briefly presented. Then the empirical literature that relates Tobin's q to R&D and patent measures is surveyed and new … corporation is strongly related to its knowledge assets, and that the patent measures contain information about this value above …