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The Higher Educational Transformation of China and Its Global Implications
Li, Yao Amber - 2008
This paper documents the major transformation of higher education that has been underway in China since 1999 and … evaluates its potential global impacts. Reflecting China's commitment to continued high growth through quality upgrading and the … China has been grown at approximately 30% per year since 1999, and the number of graduates at all levels of higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464797
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Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation : Evidence from China
Fang, Lily - 2016
in China in the years around the privatizations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455995
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Do Stronger IPR Incentivize Female Participation in Innovation? Evidence from Chinese AI Patents
Agrawal, Shubhangi; Rathi, Sawan; Chatterjee, Chirantan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
strategy leverages China's WTO TRIPs accession, which led to stronger intellectual property rights in 2002. We find a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576575
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Brand Management and Strategies Against Counterfeits
Qian, Yi - 2012
In this paper I provide a theory for brand-protection strategies to reduce counterfeiting under weak intellectual property rights. My theoretical framework has general implications for endogenous sunk cost investments as a means of deterring counterfeiters. My model incorporates two layers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460761
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China and India as Suppliers of Affordable Medicines to Developing Countries
Hafner, Tamara - 2011
pharmaceutical trade data from 1996 to 2005, we examine the role of China and India as suppliers of medicines to other middle- and … medicines from high- income countries. We find that imports of antibiotics and unspecified medicaments from India and China … China are not only important sources of inexpensive medicines but also have an indirect effect by lowering prices through …
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The Impact of University Patent Ownership on Innovation and Commercialization
Wang, Jun; Qian, Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
are important explorations made by China in recent years to promote innovations and the commercialization of patents in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247942
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Protecting Their Intellectual Assets : Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (or Not)
Cohen, Wesley M. - 2000
Based on a survey questionnaire administered to 1478 R&D labs in the U.S. manufacturing sector in 1994, we find that firms typically protect the profits due to invention with a range of mechanisms, including patents, secrecy, lead time advantages and the use of complementary marketing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471223
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Do Patents Matter? : Empirical Evidence after GATT
Lanjouw, Jean O. - 2000
Since the late 1980s the global intellectual property rights (IPR) system has been strengthening dramatically as much of the developing world introduces patent protection for new drug products. This may lead to more research on drugs to address developing country needs. As there are identifiable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471281
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150 Years of Patent Protection
Lerner, Josh - 2000
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471298
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Damages and Injunctions in the Protection of Proprietary Research Tools
Schankerman, Mark - 1999
Profit on proprietary research tools is determined partly by the remedies for infringement, such as damages and injunctions. We investigate how damages under a liability rule and the opportunity for injunctions under a property rule can affect the incentives to develop research tools. We show...
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