of the receiving country. We test the empirical implications of our model using patent data in renewable and fossil … Moment estimator. We show that knowledge transfer through patent duplication increases with the level of IPR protection, but … more sensitive to uncertainty. Commitment to EPs also increases the incentives for patent duplication. The magnitude of the …

With the rise of the knowledge economy, delivering sound innovation policies requires a thorough understanding of how … Global Innovation Networks (GINs), to shed light on how the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) influences … innovation or in patenting activities abroad. …

This paper studies the consequences of parallel import (PI) on process innovation of firms heterogeneous in their …. The impact of PI on innovation is determined by the degree of heterogeneity between firms and trade costs. Increasing … market, hence increases its innovation efforts. A tariff policy accompanied by opening borders to PI only increases welfare …

sector. We use firm-level data on patents filed in renewable (REN) and fossil fuel (FF) technologies by 5,261 European firms … margin innovation decision (i.e. whether to conduct innovation) from the intensive margin decision (i.e. how much to innovate … innovation towards REN and away from FF technologies. Yet, we find that these factors have a larger impact on closing the …

We study the impact of environmental regulations on the patent activities for wind turbines between 1980 and 2008. We … on innovation activities. In addition, we find that price-based policy instruments are more effective in fostering …

energy R&D expenditures. Technological innovation is measured using patent counts for specific technologies related to energy … increase the likelihood to file additional patents by about 3%. In contrast, energy prices have no significant effect on the … likelihood to patent. Governmental energy R&D support has a small positive significant effect on patenting activities. …

The study of innovation and technological change is an increasing field of economic enquire because innovation can be … considered a major engine of growth. This paper is concerned with the determinants of innovation and technological change …

innovation, with particular reference to agro-biotechnologies and the relations between developed and developing countries. There … towards research and innovation in general, which in some cases may be beneficial to society, in others not so. If the … with excessive market power when commercializing the innovation. This paper will try to show that these problems cannot be …

intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although … workers there. By increasing the size of the innovation sector and the skill-intensity of emigration, IPRs protection makes it … correlation between emigration and innovation in the presence of strong IPRs protection. …