extensive patent protection accelerates it. Health policy institutions, and economic and demographic factors that make markets … more profitable, also speed up diffusion. The effects are robust to using instruments to control for endogeneity of policy … regimes. The results point to an important role for patents and other policy choices in driving the diffusion of new …

cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on R&D, patenting and market value in the computer … evidence that both strategic patenting and R&D spillovers strongly affect innovation and market value of software firms. …

When will reducing trade barriers against a low wage country cause innovation to increase in high wage regions like the … cost of innovating falls. Interestingly, the “China shock” is more likely to induce innovation than liberalization with … specialization and market expansion. Calibrations of our model to the recent experience of the US with China suggests that there will …

cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on R&D, patenting and market value in the computer … evidence that both strategic patenting and R&D spillovers strongly affect innovation and market value of software firms. …

settings and health care systems, taking into account their launch date, patent status, market dynamics and the regulatory … impact of distribution margins and generic entry on public prices and to what extent innovation, by means of introducing …

This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United … States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to elucidate the implications of recent policy changes …

use both academic publications and patent data to trace the geographical distribution of related knowledge and innovation …