The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue. Although a "medical anti … develops a framework of analysis for the impact of patent rights on biomedical innovation in "technology follower" developing …-commons" has been predicted due to a proliferation of patents on upstream technologies, evidence to test these concerns is only now …

The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue. Although a “medical anti … develops a framework of analysis for the impact of patent rights on biomedical innovation in “technology follower” developing …-commons” has been predicted due to a proliferation of patents on upstream technologies, evidence to test these concerns is only now …

Tecnologia (MCT), the main administrative agency responsible for innovation policy, seems to be aware of the problems faced by … the innovation system in the country. It is in the process of giving shape to a new policy on innovation, has introduced … new research grants, etc., but it has not addressed itself to the fundamental weakness of the innovation system, namely …

has changed the essential nature of innovation - driven by widespread access to the ability to replicate and improve … - remains the same. Hence a focus on endogenous innovation policy is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago. …

. Indeed, The LIDEs on average show higher levels of high tech infrastructure and resident patents than the second-tier NIEs …

advance the notion of quadic patent family, defined as a patent family that consists of patent applications at the European … Patent Office, the Japanese Patent Office, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the national patent office of a … a sample of 38 countries. Our results indicate that quadic patent applications are driven by the need for accessing …

financial patents at the US Patent and Trademark Office, and to have also impacted other patent offices around the world. A … about the relationship between the patent system and innovation, in order to draw some tentative conclusions about their … number of scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued both the quality of these patents and the decisions themselves …

We analyze the nanotechnology patent applications filed in China from 1998 to 2008 and find that the extraordinary … industry can benefit from public R&D investment to actively develop indigenous innovation. …

In this paper we examine the importance of financial and other obstacles to innovation in the Netherlands using … statistical information from the CIS 3.5 innovation survey. We report results on the effect of these obstacles on the firms …

asks how institutions shape the system of innovation (SI). The context of underdevelopment exhibits distinct system … different contexts, it introduces the idea of a System of Learning Innovation in Development (SLID) that emphasizes individual … and organizational competence building. The differences between “Advanced” Systems of Innovation (ASI) and two types of …