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Economic Adversity and Entrepreneurship-led Growth - Lessons from the Indian Software Sector

Athreye, Suma - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010

-based entrepreneurship to flourish. In this paper, we draw on the experience of Indian software firms where entrepreneurial growth has belied …

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Rough Road to Market: Institutional Barriers to Innovations in Africa

Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji; Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006

Translating R&D and inventive efforts into a market product is characterized by significant financial skills, and the ability to overcome technical and instititonal barriers. Research into and translation of new technologies such as biotechnology products to the market requires even greater...

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Information and intellectual property: The global challenges

Aiyer Ghosh, Rishab; Soete, Luc - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006

The paper analyses the contribution of 'golden papers' - seminal works whose ideas remain as fresh and relevant today as when they were first published decades ago - and which continue to dominate academic discourse among successive generations of scholars. The authors analyse why two works...

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Knowledge disclosure, patents and optimal organization of research and development

Bhattacharya, Sudipto; Guriev, Sergei - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

We develop a model of two-stage cumulative research and development (R&D), in which one Research Unit (RU) with an innovative idea bargains to license her nonverifiable interim knowledge exclusively to one of two competing Development Units (DUs) via one of two alternative modes: an Open sale...

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Inter-firm technology transfer: Partnership-embedded licensing or standard licensing agreements?

Hagedoorn, John; Lorenz-Orlean, Stefanie; Kranenburg, Hans - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

When companies decide to engage in technology transfer through licensing to other firms, they have two basic options …: to use standard licensing contracts or to set-up more elaborate partnership-embedded licensing agreements. We find that … broader partnership-embedded licensing agreements are preferred with higher levels of technological sophistication of …

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Breaking the Fence: Patent Rights and Biomedical Innovation in 'Technology Followers'

Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006

The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue. Although a "medical anti-commons" has been predicted due to a proliferation of patents on upstream technologies, evidence to test these concerns is only now emerging. However, most industrial surveys that...

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Business and financial method patents, innovation, and policy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010

Two court decisions in the 1990s are widely viewed as having opened the door to a flood of business method and financial patents at the US Patent and Trademark Office, and to have also impacted other patent offices around the world. A number of scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued...

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Mitigating 'anticommons' harms to research in science and technology

David, Paul A. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

There are three analytically distinct layers of the phenomenon that has been labeled 'the anticommons' and indicted as a potential impediment to innovation resulting from patenting and enforcement of IPR obtained on academic research results. This paper distinguishes among 'search costs',...

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The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer

Hall, Bronwyn; Helmers, Christian - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010

Global climate change mitigation will require the development and diffusion of a large number and variety of new technologies. How will patent protection affect this process? In this paper we first review the evidence on the role of patents for innovation and international technology transfer in...

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Innovation and Microenterprises Growth in Ethiopia

Gebreeyesus, Mulu - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

This paper addresses two prominent issues on the development of small enterprises in Africa. Which factors inhibit or foster innovation activities in small enterprises? Do innovators create more jobs? We use a large set of microenterprises survey data from Ethiopia that comprise 1000...

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