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 … not stimulate domestic innovation, as estimated by the US patent awards (both raw counts and citation-weighted) and …

. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation … unpredictable, and was unrelated to such proxies for the productivity of the innovation as inventive capital or the commercial …

of the developing world introduces patent protection for new drug products. This may lead to more research on drugs to …

improve on counts in studies which require a measure of the extent of innovation. A simple renewal based weighting scheme is …

questions. The economy consists of many industries and firms engaged in cumulative (step-by-step) innovation. IPR policy … same innovation(s) themselves or by making some pre-specified payments to the technological leaders. We prove the existence …

. Patent protection has increased around the world as a consequence of the TRIPS Agreement, which specifies minimum levels of … intellectual property protection for members of the World Trade Organization. It is generally argued that patents are critical for …