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Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Innovation : Evidence from Trips
Kyle, Margaret - 2015
countries from 2000-2013. The World Trade Organization required its member countries to implement a minimum level of patent … protection within a specified time period as part of the TRIPS Agreement. However, members retained the right to impose price … product level, selection into TRIPS "treatment" is exogenously determined by compliance deadlines that vary across countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031206
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Are National Patent Laws the Blossoming Rain?
Qian, Yi - 2014
Research on the effects of patent protection on innovation and technology transfer in the cross-country pharmaceutical industry adds to our understanding of the underlying forces driving a country's innovation level. Qian (2007) constructs a comprehensive database useful for evaluating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069398
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Competing Engines of Growth : Innovation and Standardization
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction new goods, whose production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are adapted to be produced using unskilled labor. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144153
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Unilateral Measures and Emissions Mitigation
Chatterji, Shurojit - 2010
We discuss global climate mitigation that builds on existing unilateral measures to cut emissions. We document and discuss the rationale for such unilateral measures argue that such measures have the potential to generate positive spillover effects both within and across countries. In a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150444
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The Choice between Formal and Informal Intellectual Property : A Literature Review
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2014
We survey the economic literature, both theoretical and empirical, on the choice of intellectual property protection by firms. Our focus is on the tradeoffs between using patents and disclosing versus the use of secrecy, although we also look briefly at the use of other means of formal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066272
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International Protection of Intellectual Property
Grossman, Gene M.; Lai, Edwin L.-C - 2022
We study the incentives that governments have to protect intellectual property in a trading world economy. We consider … a world economy with ongoing innovation in two countries that differ in market size, in their capacities for innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324119
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150 Years of Patent Protection
Lerner, Josh - 2021
This paper examines three sets of explanations for variations in the strength of patent protection across sixty countries and a 150-year period. Wealthier nations are more likely to have patent systems, to allow patentees a longer time to put their patents into practice, and to ratify treaties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224316
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The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Treaties
Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2021
Intellectual property treaties have two main types of provisions: national treatment of foreign inventors, and harmonization of protections. I address the positive question of when countries would want to treat foreign inventors the same as domestic inventors, and how their incentive to do so...
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How to Count Patents and Value Intellectual Property : Uses of Patent Renewal and Application Data
Lanjouw, Jean O.; Pakes, Ariel; Putnam, Jonathan - 2021
Patent counts are very imperfect measures of innovative output. This paper discusses how additional data-the number of years a patent is renewed and the number of countries in which protection for the same invention is sought - can be used to improve on counts in studies which require a measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213071
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Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment, and Industrial Development
Branstetter, Lee - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070725