analysis proceeds in stages. It begins with an exogenous rate of innovation in order to focus on the first two components. The … last two components are added by endogenizing the rate of innovation. Finally, the paper considers the role of foreign …

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 …

fertility of an innovation in generating more innovations cannot be observed. The menu of patent scope can be implemented with …

which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts that IPR reform in the South …, Northern resources will be reallocated to R&D, driving an increase in the global rate of innovation. We test the model …

questions. The economy consists of many industries and firms engaged in cumulative (step-by-step) innovation. IPR policy … same innovation(s) themselves or by making some pre-specified payments to the technological leaders. We prove the existence …

a world economy with ongoing innovation in two countries that differ in market size, in their capacities for innovation …

rights, and (iv) the impact of intellectual property" litigation on the innovation process itself …