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Innovation, Imitation, and Intellectual Property Rights
Helpman, Elhanan - 2021
analysis proceeds in stages. It begins with an exogenous rate of innovation in order to focus on the first two components. The … last two components are added by endogenizing the rate of innovation. Finally, the paper considers the role of foreign …
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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 … not stimulate domestic innovation, as estimated by the US patent awards (both raw counts and citation-weighted) and …
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Innovation Fertility and Patent Design
Hopenhayn, Hugo A.; Mitchell, Matthew F. - 2021
fertility of an innovation in generating more innovations cannot be observed. The menu of patent scope can be implemented with …
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Patents, Appropriate Technology, and North-South Trade
Diwan, Ishac; Rodrik, Dani - 2021
We consider the differential incentives of the North and the South to provide patent protection to innovating firms in the North. The two regions are assumed to have a different distribution of preferences over the range of exploitable technologies. Due to the scarcity of R&D resources, the two...
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Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment : Theory and Evidence
Branstetter, Lee - 2010
which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts that IPR reform in the South …, Northern resources will be reallocated to Ramp;D, driving an increase in the global rate of innovation. We test the model …
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Patent Disclosure in Standard Setting
Ganglmair, Bernhard - 2014
In a model of industry standard setting with private information about firms' intellectual property, we analyze (a) firms' incentives to contribute to the development and improvement of a standard, and (b) firms' decision to disclose the existence of relevant intellectual property to other...
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The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights : A Survey of the Empirical Literature
Lanjouw, Jean O.; Lerner, Josh - 2021
rights, and (iv) the impact of intellectual property" litigation on the innovation process itself …
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International Protection of Intellectual Property
Grossman, Gene M.; Lai, Edwin L.-C - 2022
a world economy with ongoing innovation in two countries that differ in market size, in their capacities for innovation …
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State-Dependent Intellectual Property Rights Policy
Acemoglu, Daron - 2016
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 …
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Y2k and Offshoring : The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - 2021
We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country...
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