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Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often measured by granted patents. Meanwhile, other "defacto" IP (mainly purposive secrecy and natural excludability) has become more important because of the increasing closeness of...
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This paper studies how patent rights and price regulation affect how fast new drugs are launched in different countries, using newly constructed data on launches of 642 new drugs in 76 countries for the period 1983-2002, and information on the duration and content of patent and price control...
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investments through the structural estimation of a flexible innovation production function, such as the translog. Our empirical …
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number of activities including publishing, patenting, research funding, and commercial financing, innovation and production …. We report preliminary results from our work in progress. Nanotechnology is on a similar trajectory to biotechnology in …
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I examine the effect of pharmaceutical innovation on the functional status of nursing home residents using cross … dependencies would have been 58%, instead of 50%. During the period 1990-2004, pharmaceutical innovation reduced the functional …
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prescription drug expenditure by the elderly. Correspondingly, we also find no evidence of a shift in pharmaceutical innovation … the hypothesis that Medicare had a major effect on the direction of pharmaceutical innovation. …
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I analyze the effects of four types of medical innovation and cancer incidence on U.S. cancer mortality rates during … that there were no pre‐dated factors that drove both innovation and mortality and that there would have been parallel … trends in mortality in the absence of innovation, the estimates indicate that there were three major sources of the 13 …
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When do scientists and other knowledge workers organize into collaborative teams and why do they do so for some projects and not others? At the core of this important organizational choice is, we argue, a tradeoff between the productive efficiency of collaboration and the credit allocation that...
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to fostering innovation. …
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What is the optimal system of intellectual property rights to encourage innovation? Empirical evidence from economic … existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? And 2) May patent laws influence the direction - as opposed to the rate … innovations in developing countries, discourage innovation in the developing countries? This essay summarizes results of existing …
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