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Damages and Injunctions in the Protection of Proprietary Research Tools

Schankerman, Mark - 1999

Profit on proprietary research tools is determined partly by the remedies for infringement, such as damages and … affect the incentives to develop research tools. We show that the prevailing legal doctrine of damages under liability rule … damages. This can create insufficient incentives to develop research tools. Incentives can be improved either by a property …

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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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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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Bidding for Brains : Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers

McAusland, Carol - 2009

We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment, and Industrial Development

Branstetter, Lee - 2009

This paper develops a North-South product model in which Southern imitation and the North-South flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) are endogenously determined. In the model, a strengthening of IPR protection in the South reduces the rate of imitation, which, in turn, increases the flow of...

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The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market For Ideas : Evidence From Patent Grant Delays

Gans, Joshua S. - 2007

This paper considers the impact of the intellectual property (IP) system on the timing of cooperation/licensing by start-up technology entrepreneurs. If the market for technology licenses is efficient, the timing of licensing is independent of whether IP has already been granted. In contrast,...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment : Theory and Evidence

Branstetter, Lee - 2007

This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the effect of strengthening intellectual property rights in developing countries on the level and composition of industrial development. We develop a North-South product cycle model in which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are...

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Intellectual Property and Marketing

Lakdawalla, Darius - 2006

Patent protection spurs innovation by raising the rewards for research, but it usually results in less desirable …

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Open Source Software : The New Intellectual Property Paradigm

Maurer, Stephen M. - 2006

Open source methods for creating software rely on developers who voluntarily reveal code in the expectation that other developers will reciprocate. Open source incentives are distinct from earlier uses of intellectual property, leading to different types of inefficiencies and different biases in...

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Academic Freedom, Private-Sector Focus, and the Process of Innovation

Aghion, Philippe - 2005

We develop a model that clarifies the respective advantages and disadvantages of academic and private-sector research … not rely on lack of appropriability or spillovers to generate a rationale for academic research. Instead, we focus on … interests, academia can be indispensable for early-stage research. At the same time, the private sector's ability to direct …

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