This article provides evidence that patent protection can have a positive effect on trade, by analysing the impact of … Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement included in the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO). A gravity model … using panel data from 1995 to 2010 suggests that the implementation of minimum standards of patent protection has increased …

-statutory (trade secrets, design complexity, and lead-time advantage over competitors) or statutory (patent, design registration … relates to the type of innovation, the characteristics of the market sector in which they operate, the firms’ characteristics …

According to a recent literature, the positive effect of competition is supposed to be growing with the proximity to … the technological frontier. Using a variety of indicators, the paper tests the effect of competition and regulation on … 1979-2003. Results show no evidence of a positive effect of competition growing with the proximity to the frontier. Two …

than managerial timing ability. …

than managerial timing ability. …

The role of defense in national innovation systems is a highly topical, because of the complexity of defense systems …

international licensing agreements developed with the French Patent office (INPI). As a main result, we highlight a stronger …

To protect intellectual property (IP), organizations use different kinds of mechanisms such as patent, secret or trade … secret (Hannah, 2005; 2007). Patent grants to the holder a temporary monopoly position including the right to sue for … in the industry and that the firm makes an effort to protect” (Fosfuri and Rønde, 2004: 46). Unlike patent relies on …