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Procuring Knowledge
Maurer, Stephen M. - 2003
of public and private sponsorship, and explain why this makes sense in some circumstances …
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Brand Management and Strategies Against Counterfeits
Qian, Yi - 2012
In this paper I provide a theory for brand-protection strategies to reduce counterfeiting under weak intellectual property rights. My theoretical framework has general implications for endogenous sunk cost investments as a means of deterring counterfeiters. My model incorporates two layers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460761
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The Choice between Formal and Informal Intellectual Property : A Literature Review
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012
We survey the economic literature, both theoretical and empirical, on the choice of intellectual property protection by firms. Our focus is on the tradeoffs between using patents and disclosing versus the use of secrecy, although we also look briefly at the use of other means of formal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460676
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The Promise of Beijing : Evaluating the Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Air Quality
Chen, Yuyu - 2011
To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461750
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The Higher Educational Transformation of China and Its Global Implications
Li, Yao Amber - 2008
This paper documents the major transformation of higher education that has been underway in China since 1999 and … evaluates its potential global impacts. Reflecting China's commitment to continued high growth through quality upgrading and the … China has been grown at approximately 30% per year since 1999, and the number of graduates at all levels of higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464797
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China and India as Suppliers of Affordable Medicines to Developing Countries
Hafner, Tamara - 2011
pharmaceutical trade data from 1996 to 2005, we examine the role of China and India as suppliers of medicines to other middle- and … medicines from high- income countries. We find that imports of antibiotics and unspecified medicaments from India and China … China are not only important sources of inexpensive medicines but also have an indirect effect by lowering prices through …
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The Impact of University Patent Ownership on Innovation and Commercialization
Wang, Jun; Qian, Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
are important explorations made by China in recent years to promote innovations and the commercialization of patents in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247942
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Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation : Evidence from China
Fang, Lily - 2016
in China in the years around the privatizations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455995
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Do Stronger IPR Incentivize Female Participation in Innovation? Evidence from Chinese AI Patents
Agrawal, Shubhangi; Rathi, Sawan; Chatterjee, Chirantan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
strategy leverages China's WTO TRIPs accession, which led to stronger intellectual property rights in 2002. We find a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576575
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Pioneers, Submariners, or Thicket-builders : Which Firms Use Continuations in Patenting?
Hegde, Deepak - 2007
The continuations procedure within the U.S. patent system has been criticized for enabling firms to manipulate the patent review process for strategic purposes. Changes during the 1990s in patent procedures affected the incentives of applicants to exploit the continuations process, and...
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