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Maurer, Stephen M. - 2003

government grants. We argue that there is no single best mechanism for supporting research. Rather, mechanisms can only be … an intramural activity to largely a grant process. Finally, we observe that much research is supported by a hybrid system …

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Protecting Their Intellectual Assets : Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (or Not)

Cohen, Wesley M. - 2000

Based on a survey questionnaire administered to 1478 R&D labs in the U.S. manufacturing sector in 1994, we find that firms typically protect the profits due to invention with a range of mechanisms, including patents, secrecy, lead time advantages and the use of complementary marketing and...

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Do Patents Matter? : Empirical Evidence after GATT

Lanjouw, Jean O. - 2000

of the developing world introduces patent protection for new drug products. This may lead to more research on drugs to … research to products specific to developing country markets. There is some, although limited, evidence of an increase in the … provides a baseline' against which future research activity can be compared once the new global patent regime is fully …

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Innovation Fertility and Patent Design

Hopenhayn, Hugo A. - 1999

It may be advantageous to provide a variety of kinds of patent protection to heterogenous innovations. Innovations which benefit society largely through their use as building blocks to future inventions may require a different scope of protection in order to be encouraged. We model the problem...

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Legal Monopoly : Patents and Antitrust Litigation in U.S. Manufacturing, 1970-1998

Khan, B. Zorina - 1999

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between patenting, innovation, and federal antitrust enforcement towards firms in the manufacturing sector. I examine whether the likelihood of antitrust litigation is influenced by patent histories and R&D expenditures, after...

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Do Stronger Patents Induce More Innovation? Evidence from the 1988 Japanese Patent Law Reforms

Sakakibara, Mariko - 1999

Does an expansion of patent scope induce more innovative effort by firms? This article provides evidence on this question by examining firm responses to the Japanese patent reforms of 1988. Interviews with practitioners suggest the reforms significantly expanded the scope of patent rights in...

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Rewards versus Intellectual Property Rights

Shavell, Steven - 1999

This paper compares reward systems to intellectual property rights (patents and copyrights). Under a reward system, innovators are paid for innovations directly by government (possibly on the basis of sales), and innovations pass immediately into the public domain. Thus, reward systems engender...

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(When) Does Patent Protection Spur Cumulative Research Within Firms?

Arora, Ashish; Belenzon, Sharon; Marx, Matt; Shvadron, Dror - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We estimate the effect of patent protection on follow-on investments in corporate scientific research. We exploit a new … method for identifying an exogenous reduction in the protection a granted patent provides. Using data on public, research …-active firms between 1990 and 2015, we find that firms decrease follow-on research after a reduction in patent protection, as …

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The Patent Troll : Benign Middleman or Stick-Up Artist?

Abrams, David S. - 2019

How do non-practicing entities ("Patent Trolls") impact innovation and technological progress? Although this question has important implications for industrial policy, little direct evidence about it exists. This paper provides new theoretical and empirical evidence to fill that gap. In the...

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The Organization of Innovation : Property Rights and the Outsourcing Decision

Jungbauer, Thomas; Nicholson, Sean; Pan, June; Waldman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Why do firms outsource research and development (R&D) for some products while conducting R&D in-house for similar ones …

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