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Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation : Evidence from the Human Genome

Williams, Heidi L. - 2010

Do intellectual property (IP) rights on existing technologies hinder subsequent innovation? Using newly-collected data …'s short-term IP had persistent negative effects on subsequent innovation relative to a counterfactual of Celera genes having …

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Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation : Evidence from Health Care Markets

Williams, Heidi L. - 2015

A long theoretical literature has analyzed optimal patent policy design, yet there is very little empirical evidence on a key parameter needed to apply these models in practice: the relationship between patent strength and research investments. I argue that the dearth of empirical evidence on...

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Inventing in the Shadow of the Patent System : Evidence from 19th-Century Patents and Prizes for Technological Innovations

Khan, B. Zorina - 2014

. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation … unpredictable, and was unrelated to such proxies for the productivity of the innovation as inventive capital or the commercial …

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