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Technology and intellectual property: A taxonomy of contemporary markets for knowledge and their implications for development

Cimoli, Mario; Primi, Annalisa - 2008

This paper aims to contribute to frame the IP for development debate into a more extensive discussion on appropriability, within the perspective of policies shaping scientific, technological and production capabilities in the light of development theory. Through the lenses of the paradigm based...

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Intellectual property rights and agricultural development: Evidence from a worldwide index of IPRs in agriculture (1961-2018)

Campi, Mercedes; Nuvolari, Alessandro - 2020

This paper revises and updates the Campi-Nuvolari index of intellectual property protection for plant varieties (Campi and Nuvolari, 2015). The new index has been updated and provides yearly scores for the period 1961-2018 for a total number of 104 countries, which have legislation on plant...

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Sustainable innovation and intellectual property rights: Friends, foes or perfect strangers?

Castaldi, Carolina - 2021

As sustainable innovation becomes a strategy for companies to gain competitive advantage, the question of how to profit from sustainable innovation becomes central. Surprisingly, little research exists on the appropriation strategies of companies engaged in sustainable innovation and the few...

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Some policy lessons from medical/therapeutic responses to the COVID-19 crisis: A rich research system for knowledge generation and dysfunctional institutions for its exploitation

Dosi, Giovanni - 2021

This note discusses the medical/therapeutical responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and their 'political economy' context. First, the very quick development of several vaccines highlights the richness of the basic knowledge waiting for therapeutical exploitation. Such knowledge has largely...

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Big pharma and monopoly capitalism: A long-term view

Dosi, Giovanni; Marengo, Luigi; Staccioli, Jacopo; … - 2021

Are IPRs institutions meant to foster innovative activities or conversely to secure appropriation and profitability? Taking stock of a long-term empirical evidence on the pharmaceutical sector in the US, we can hardly support IPRs intended as an innovation rewarding institution. According to our...

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Digitalization, copyright and innovation in the creative industries: An agent-based model

Martinelli, Arianna; Nuvolari, Alessandro; Palagi, Elisa; … - 2022

The ambiguity of the empirical results on the relationship between copyright and creativity calls for a better … theoretical understanding of the issue, possibly enlarging the analysis to other factors such as technology and copyright … between digitization and copyright enforcement affects the production and access to cultural goods. The model includes …

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Appropriability, patents, and rates of innovation in complex products industries

Marengo, Luigi; Pasquali, Corrado; Valente, Marco; … - 2009

The economic theory of intellectual property rights is based on a rather narrow view of both competition and technological knowledge. We suggest some ways of enriching this framework with a more empirically grounded view of both and, by means of a simulation model, we analyze the impact of...

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Concordance and complementarity in IP instruments

Grazzi, Marco; Piccardo, Chiara; Vergari, Cecilia - 2019

This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and firm performance in terms of revenues, growth and profitability. By resorting to the virtual universe of Italian manufacturing firms this work provides a rather complete picture...

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When authors become inventors: An empirical analysis on patent-paper pairs in medical research

Martinelli, Arianna; Romito, Elena - 2019

This paper investigates the effect of patenting on follow-on knowledge in cancer research. Using a difference-in-difference approach on an original dataset of patent-paper-pairs we are able to estimate the causal effect of the granting of a patent on scientic development in the same domain....

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Patent disputes as emerging barriers to technology entry? Empirical evidence from patent opposition

Martinelli, Arianna; Mazzei, Julia; Moschella, Daniele - 2022

The recent surge of patent disputes plays an important role in discouraging firms from entering new technology domains (TDs). Using a large-scale dataset combining data from the EPO-PATSTAT database and ORBIS-IP and containing patents applied at EPO between 2000 and 2015, we construct a new...

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