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The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue. Although a "medical anti … difficult to predict the impact of patenting on biomedical innovation in developing and least developed countries. This paper … develops a framework of analysis for the impact of patent rights on biomedical innovation in "technology follower" developing …
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During the past 20 years, the world pharmaceutical industry has experienced a dramatic increase in R&D intensity. We apply and extend a model developed by Grabowski and Vernon (2000) with a pooled data sample of the 15 publicly listed Japanese drug firms for the period 1987 to 1998. As in the...
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biotechnology products to the market requires even greater resources. This paper aims to understand the key factors that foster or … by examining systemic institutional barriers to commercializing biotechnology in a develping context within a systems of … innovation framework. …
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The science-technology-innovation system is one that is continuously and rapidly evolving. The dramatic growth over the … last twenty years in the use of science, technology and innovation (STI) indicators appears first and foremost the result … and economic objectives and in which business competition is increasingly based on innovation. As highlighted on the basis …
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local knowledge spillovers for innovation. However, not much is known about whether local knowledge spillovers work … similarly in developing countries. This analysis is based on an original innovation survey in the software industry in Uruguay … be essential for innovation, but not sufficient for economic success. Firms in developing countries need to be connected …
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" to "universities of innovation." Policy makers and universities themselves see that one of their major roles is … supporting industrial innovation and thus economic growth. We argue that this rests on a mis-cconception of the nature of … innovation and the value of universities. We argue that a more appropriate function for this institution is as the "university of …
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presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of … product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation …
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This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …
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This paper analyzes empirically the channels through which university research affects industry innovation. We examine … innovation systems. We find that creation of a new university department increased regional innovation activity 3-4 years later …
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in the interests of economic growth or social welfare that India's science and innovation, and intellectual property …
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