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Democratizing intellectual property systems : how corruption hinders equal opportunities for firms
Paunov C. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
technological, organizational and further innovation efforts quality certificates and patents. Using firm-level data covering 48 … investments were also negatively affected. By contrast, we do not find effects on firms ownership of patents. …
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Economic Adversity and Entrepreneurship-led Growth - Lessons from the Indian Software Sector
Athreye, Suma - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
It is commonly believed that the business environment in developing countries does not allow productive technology-based entrepreneurship to flourish. In this paper, we draw on the experience of Indian software firms where entrepreneurial growth has belied these predictions. This paper argues...
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Information and intellectual property: The global challenges
Aiyer Ghosh, Rishab; Soete, Luc - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
The paper analyses the contribution of 'golden papers' - seminal works whose ideas remain as fresh and relevant today as when they were first published decades ago - and which continue to dominate academic discourse among successive generations of scholars. The authors analyse why two works...
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Radical versus Non-Radical Inventions
Schoenmakers, Wilfred; Duysters, Geert; Vanhaverbeke, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
is very important. For our research we made use of the EPO (European Patent Office) database on patents. We used the …
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Breaking the Fence: Patent Rights and Biomedical Innovation in 'Technology Followers'
Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
-commons" has been predicted due to a proliferation of patents on upstream technologies, evidence to test these concerns is only now …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712264
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Innovation and diffusion of clean/green technology: Can patent commons help?
Hall, Bronwyn H.; Helmers, Christian - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
This paper explores the characteristics of 238 patents on 94 “inventions” contributed by major multinational innovators … innovations. By comparing the pledged patents to other patents in the same technologies or held by the same multinationals, we … of climate change related technologies. This study, therefore, indirectly provides evidence on the role of patents in the …
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Open innovation, contracts, and intellectual property rights: an exploratory empirical study
Hagedoorn, John; Ridder, Ann-Kristin - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
Our exploratory empirical study, based on a series of in-depth interviews and a survey of firms, searches for answers on a number of questions that deal with the role of formal contracts and intellectual property rights in the context of open innovation. We find that firms active in open...
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Rough Road to Market: Institutional Barriers to Innovations in Africa
Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji; Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
Translating R&D and inventive efforts into a market product is characterized by significant financial skills, and the ability to overcome technical and instititonal barriers. Research into and translation of new technologies such as biotechnology products to the market requires even greater...
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Estimates of the value of patent rights in China
Huang, Can - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
We estimate the value of Chinese invention and utility model patents that were applied for during two periods, 1987 …-1989 and 1986-1998. We find that patents applied for by foreign entities invariably have higher value than do those applied for … by domestic entities, and the gap is significant. The total value of invention and utility model patents in the 1987 …
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Experimentation with Strategy and the Evolution of Dynamic Capability in the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector
Athreye, Suma; Kale, Dinar; Ramani, Shyama V. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
This paper demonstrates that radical regulatory changes can be tantamount to technological revolutions by studying Indian pharmaceutical firms. It shows that radical regulatory changes such as the Indian Patent Act of 1970, the New Industrial Policy of 1991 and the signing of TRIPS (Trade...
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