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protection. We use new survey data from India, the results of interviews with industry, government and multinational institutions …
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This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...
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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 … significantly depress the average price of these commodities imported from high-income trading partners, suggesting that India and …
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fertility of an innovation in generating more innovations cannot be observed. The menu of patent scope can be implemented with …
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Does an expansion of patent scope induce more innovative effort by firms? This article provides evidence on this question by examining firm responses to the Japanese patent reforms of 1988. Interviews with practitioners suggest the reforms significantly expanded the scope of patent rights in...
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improve on counts in studies which require a measure of the extent of innovation. A simple renewal based weighting scheme is …
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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 …
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How do non-practicing entities ("Patent Trolls") impact innovation and technological progress? Although this question …", who exploit the patent system to extract rents and thereby hurt innovation. We employ unprecedented access to NPE … also find that downstream innovation drops in fields where patents have been acquired by NPEs. Finally, our numerical …
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Why do firms outsource research and development (R&D) for some products while conducting R&D in-house for similar ones? An innovating firm risks cannibalizing its existing products. The more profitable these products, the more the firm wants to limit cannibalization. We apply this logic to the...
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's innovation surveys, and firms' patent, industrial design, and trademark filings with the Chilean IP office. We use these data to …-to-the-world product innovation, which suggests that branding may be an important mechanism to appropriate returns to innovation in a …
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