IPR protection and innovation, but the evidence is stronger for developed countries than for developing countries. Thirdly …, the optimal level of IPR protection should tradeoff the social benefits of enhanced innovation against the social costs of …

This study develops a Schumpeterian growth model to analyze the effects of different patent instruments on innovation …. We first analyze patent breadth that captures the traditional positive effect of patent rights on innovation. Then, we … assigned to incumbents reduces entrants' incentives for innovation. This aspect of blocking patents captures the recently …

This paper seeks to explore the types of innovation that are predominant in SMEs in developing countries and to … investigate the impact of these innovations on different dimensions of firm performance based on an industry-wide innovation … survey carried out in Nigeria in 2007. Although innovation is important for superior firm performance, our result found that …

This chapter seeks to make some contributions to the literature on firm-level innovation in Africa by attempting to …-wide study. We focused on the product and process innovation activities of firms between 2003 and 2006 and found differences in … the factors that drive them at the firm level. Our results further show that interactions matter more than most innovation …