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International R&D Spillovers : A Re-Examination

Lichtenberg, Frank - 1996

Coe and Helpman(1995) have measured the extent to which technology spills over between industrialized countries through the particular channel of trade flows. This paper re-examines two particular features of their study. First, we suggest that their functional form of how foreign R&D affects...

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International R&D Spillovers

Coe, David T. - 1993

Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of economic growth have emphasized this link and have also identified a number of channels through which a country's R&D affects total factor productivity of its trade partners....

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A Survey of Empirical Evidence on Patents and Innovation

Sampat, Bhaven N. - 2018

This report surveys the empirical literature from economics and related fields on patents and innovation. In particular …, it reviews and synthesizes the empirical evidence on patents and first-generation innovation, the disclosure function of … patents, and patents and follow-on innovation. The main results are summarized in fifteen charts …

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

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2010

innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous. We then … externalities, implies that patent protection may not be the optimal instrument for encouraging innovation in this area, especially …

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Are National Patent Laws the Blossoming Rain?

Qian, Yi - 2010

pharmaceutical patent protection alone does not stimulate domestic innovation, as estimated by the US patent awards (both raw counts … innovation acceleration and technology transfer, conditional upon certain country variables. In particular, the interaction …Research on the effects of patent protection on innovation and technology transfer in the cross-country pharmaceutical …

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Adoption Curves and Social Interactions

Brock, William A. - 2009

This paper considers the observational implications of social influences on adoption decisions for an environment of perfect foresight adopters. We argue that social influences can produce two observable effects: 1) discontinuities in unconditional adoption curves and 2) pattern reversals in...

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The Economics of Technology Sharing : Open Source and Beyond

Lerner, Josh - 2004

This paper reviews our understanding of the growing open source movement. We highlight how many aspects of open source software appear initially puzzling to an economist. As we have acknowledge, our ability to answer confidently many of the issues raised here questions is likely to increase as...

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Innovations and Technological Spillovers

Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 1993

In this paper we analyze the evidence from a large number of studies on three specific questions pertaining to R&D investment: (1) Are there diminishing returns to inventive activities? (2) What is the relationship between R&D and productivity and what are the magnitudes of the returns to a...

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Endogenous Product Cycles

Grossman, Gene M. - 1989

We construct a model of the product cycle featuring endogenous innovation and endogenous technology transfer …

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Knowledge Transfer Abroad : The Role of U.S. Inventors within Global R&D Networks

Branstetter, Lee - 2018

The location of US multinational foreign R&D has shifted significantly to include emerging markets in addition to traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local...

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