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Innovation and Diffusion of Clean/Green Technology : Can Patent Commons Help?
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114981
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The Role of Patent Protection in (Clean/Green) Technology Transfer
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012
technologies. How will patent protection affect this process? In this paper we first review the evidence on the role of patents for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115728
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R&D Investments with Competitive Interactions
Miltersen, Kristian R. - 2012
In this article we develop a model to analyze patent-protected R&D investment projects when there is (imperfect) competition in the development and marketing of the resulting product. The competitive interactions that occur substantially complicate the solution of the problem since the decision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115937
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Market Size, Division of Labor, and Firm Productivity
Chaney, Thomas - 2012
We generalize Krugman's (1979) 'new trade' model by allowing for an explicit production chain in which a range of tasks is performed sequentially by a number of specialized teams. We demonstrate that an increase in market size induces a deeper division of labor among these teams which leads to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103513
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A Tale of Two Standards : Patent Pools and Innovation in the Optical Disk Drive Industry
Flamm, Kenneth - 2014
of innovation in product markets, rather than on indirect correlates of innovation (like patents), and by exploiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064214
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Patent Rights, Product Market Reforms, and Innovation
Aghion, Philippe - 2014
Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this paper, we address this question by investigating how innovation responses to a substantial policy initiative increasing product market competition interact with the strength of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064451
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Patent Laws and Innovation : Evidence from Economic History
Moser, Petra - 2014
What is the optimal system of intellectual property rights to encourage innovation? Empirical evidence from economic history can help to inform important policy questions that have been difficult to answer with modern data: 1) Does the existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? And 2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064853
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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry
Aghion, Philippe - 2014
innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064941
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Words in Patents : Research Inputs and the Value of Innovativeness in Invention
Packalen, Mikko - 2014
million patents granted during 1920-2010. This novel textual analysis empirically reveals which single and general purpose … research by comparing patents that mention these research inputs early against the value of other patents. For this comparison …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065176
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Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from 20 U.S. Industries Under the New Deal
Lampe, Ryan - 2014
Patent pools, which allow competing firms to combine their patents, have emerged as a prominent mechanism to resolve … litigation when multiple firms own patents for the same technology. This paper takes advantage of a window of regulatory … fields in which a pool combined patents for substitute technologies by competing firms, suggesting that unregulated pools may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065642