extensive patent protection accelerates it. Health policy institutions, and economic and demographic factors that make markets … more profitable, also speed up diffusion. The effects are robust to using instruments to control for endogeneity of policy … regimes. The results point to an important role for patents and other policy choices in driving the diffusion of new …

innovation activities. The selection of high-skill managers is more important for innovation activities. As the economy … investments, but little selection. Closer to the world technology frontier, there is a switch to an innovation-based strategy with … limits on product market competition or investment subsidies, which encourage the investment-based strategy may be beneficial …

quickly. Also, the approval delay is likely to decrease as an industry moves from the early stages of an innovation cycle to …

cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on R&D, patenting and market value in the computer … evidence that both strategic patenting and R&D spillovers strongly affect innovation and market value of software firms. …

frontier. In vertically integrated firms, owners (managers) have to spend time both on production and innovation activities …, and this creates managerial overload, and discourages innovation. Outsourcing of some production activities mitigates the … frontier, the value of innovation increases, encouraging outsourcing. …

policy-makers to influence standards and consumers and environmentalists care about the choice of standard, it is possible …

: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local … model provides a good fit of GDP data for up to 86 countries in 1970 and 122 countries in 2000. Removing barriers to ….61, while increasing skill premia in all countries. Removing barriers to trade in goods amplifies income disparities, induces …