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Innovation and Diffusion of Clean/Green Technology : Can Patent Commons Help?

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2011

This paper explores the characteristics of 238 patents on 94 "inventions" contributed by major multinational innovators to the "Eco-Patent Commons", which provides royalty-free access to third parties to patented climate change related innovations. By comparing the pledged patents to other...

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The Battle Over Patents : History and the Politics of Innovation

Haber, Stephen H.; Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This essay is the introduction to a book of the same title, forthcoming in summer of 2021 from Oxford University Press. The purpose is to document the ways in which patent systems are products of battles over the economic surplus from innovation. The features of these systems take shape as...

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Religion and Innovation

Bénabou, Roland - 2015

waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation …

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Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Innovation : Evidence from TRIPS

Kyle, Margaret - 2014

countries from 2000-2013. The World Trade Organization required its member countries to implement a minimum level of patent …

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Immigration, International Collaboration, and Innovation : Science and Technology Policy in the Global Economy

Freeman, Richard B. - 2014

Globalization of scientific and technological knowledge has reduced the US share of world scientific activity … the changing global world of science and technology. These include aligning immigration policies more closely to the …

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International Health Economics

Egan, Mark - 2013

medical innovations whose returns are earned worldwide. Because world returns drive innovation and innovation is central to … countries when governments centrally price health care. Providing world returns to medical innovation under such central pricing … benefit of medical innovation. This has the direct normative implication that medical innovations have inefficiently low world …

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Necessity as the Mother of Invention : Innovative Responses to Natural Disasters

Miao, Qing - 2013

How do innovators respond to the shock of a natural disaster? Do natural disasters spur technical innovations that can reduce the risk of future hazards? This paper examines the impact of three types of natural disasters including earthquakes, droughts and flooding on the innovation of their...

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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry

Aghion, Philippe - 2012

Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? We construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 countries over several decades. We show that...

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Innovating Standards Through Informal Consortia : The Case of Wireless Telecommunications

Delcamp, Henry R. - 2012

We empirically examine the effects of industry consortia on the coordination of innovation strategies of the members. Our analyses utilize membership data from 32 consortia in wireless telecommunication technology subfields from 2000 to 2005 and prior art citations in standards-essential...

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Recent Research on the Economics of Patents

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012

Recent research on the economics of patents is surveyed. The topics covered include theoretical and empirical evidence on patents as an incentive for innovation, the effectiveness of patents for invention disclosure, patent valuation, and what we know about the design of patent systems. We also...

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