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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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Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Innovation : Evidence from Trips

Kyle, Margaret K. - 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 …

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Patent Protection and Innovation Over 150 Years

Lerner, Josh - 2021

The paper seeks to understand the impact of the patent system on innovation by examining shifts in the strength of patent protection across sixty countries and a 150-year period. An examination of 177 policy changes reveals that strengthening patent protection appears to have few positive...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Collaboration Structure and Information Dilemmas in Biotechnology : Organizational Boundaries as Trust Production

Zucker, Lynne G.; Darby, Michael R.; Brewer, Marilynn B.; … - 2021

Scientists who make breakthrough discoveries can receive above- normal returns to their intellectual capital, with returns depending on the degree of natural excludability - that is, whether necessary techniques can be learned through written reports or instead require hands-on experience with...

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How to Count Patents and Value Intellectual Property : Uses of Patent Renewal and Application Data

Lanjouw, Jean Olson; Pakes, Ariel; Putnam, Jonathan D. - 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...

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