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Innovation policy involves trading off monopoly output and pricing in the short run in exchange for incentives for …
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Precision medicines - therapies that rely on the use of genetic, epigenetic, and protein biomarkers - create a better match between patients with specific disease subtypes and medications that are more effective for those patients. This heterogeneity in response has implications for the decision...
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Does an expansion of patent scope induce more innovative effort by firms? This article provides evidence on this question by examining firm responses to the Japanese patent reforms of 1988. Interviews with practitioners suggest the reforms significantly expanded the scope of patent rights in...
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This paper explores the economic incentives for medical procedure innovation. Using a proprietary dataset on billing … code applications for emerging medical procedures, we highlight two mechanisms that could hinder innovation. First, the … administrative hurdle of securing permanent, reimbursable billing codes substantially delays innovation diffusion. We find that …
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products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … directly related to product categories that could be offshored more easily after the policy shock, overall innovation levels … decline and innovative effort shifts away from product innovation and towards process innovation. However, we also find …
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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 R&D, driving an increase in the global rate of innovation. We test the model …
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What is driving the remarkable increase over the last decade in the propensity of patents to cite academic science? Does this trend indicate that stronger knowledge spillovers from academia have helped power the surge in innovative activity in the U.S. in the 1990s? This paper seeks to shed...
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This paper investigates changes in the output and productivity of research and development activities in Japanese manufacturing firms over the 1980s and 1990s. Evidence from aggregate patent and R&D statistics and a micro-level analysis of R&D productivity at the firm-level suggest that there...
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Pharmaceutical innovation policy involves managing a tradeoff between high prices for new products in the short … pharmaceuticals, suggesting low(er) price markets may have different dynamics with respect to innovation policy …
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