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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....
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Indian Pharma Within Global Reach?
Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
The Indian pharmaceutical industry is presently going through a phase of transition and potential consolidation, owing to India's new TRIPS-compliant intellectual property regime and other rules aimed at enhancing the industry's credibility nationally and internationally. Appropriate policy...
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Mitigating 'anticommons' harms to research in science and technology
David, Paul A. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
There are three analytically distinct layers of the phenomenon that has been labeled 'the anticommons' and indicted as a potential impediment to innovation resulting from patenting and enforcement of IPR obtained on academic research results. This paper distinguishes among 'search costs',...
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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 … number of forward patent citations per patent to identify radical from non-radical inventions. For our analysis we used the … backward patent citations per patent. In order to test if the two groups we are considering are truly different and to see on …
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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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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
Indian pharmaceutical firms. It shows that radical regulatory changes such as the Indian Patent Act of 1970, the New …
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Wage effects of R&D tax incentives:Evidence from the Netherlands
Lokshin, Boris; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
This paper examines the impact of the Dutch R&D tax incentives program, known as WBSO, on the wages of R&D workers. In our model these wages are partly determined by the governments WBSO tax disbursements. We construct detailed firm- and time specific R&D tax credit rates as a function of the...
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Successive leadership changes in the regional jet industry
Vertesy D. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This study examines leadership dynamics in the regional jet manufacturing industry from the 1980s onwards. With the help of leading products aircraft or aircraft family, British Aerospace BAe, Fokker, Bombardier and Embraer consecutively took the leadership in terms of new deliveries. In order...
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