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The Dual Effects of Intellectual Property Regulations : Within- and Between- Patent Competition in the US Pharmaceuticals Industry
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2002
A patent only protects an innovator from others producing the same product, but it does not protect him from others … within-patent competition, which results from production of the same product, and betweenpatent competition, which results … effects of intellectual property regulations on within -patent competition by showing how protecting innovative returns from …
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Creative Destruction, Distance to Frontier, and Economic Development
Peters, Michael; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We construct a model of creative destruction with endogenous firm dynamics. We integrate the theory into a general equilibrium multi-country model of technological convergence where countries interact via international spillovers. We derive implications for both firm dynamics and aggregate...
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Creative Destruction? Impact of E-Commerce on the Retail Sector
Chava, Sudheer; Oettl, Alexander; Singh, Manpreet; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using an administrative payroll dataset for 2.6 million retail workers, we find that the staggered rollout of a major e-commerce firm's fulfillment centers reduces traditional retail workers' income in geographically proximate counties by 2.4%. Wages of hourly workers, especially part-time...
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Science, Philanthropy, and American Leadership
Conn, Robert W.; Cowhey, Peter F.; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Investments in the US Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Innovation (STEMI) enterprise come from many different sectors and their combined effect crucially enhances the nation's competitiveness. Philanthropy is an under-appreciated component of this ecosystem, providing $21.5 billion...
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Competition and Innovation : An Inverted U Relationship
Aghion, Philippe - 2002
This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A growth model is developed in which competition may increase the incremental profit from innovating; on the other hand, competition may also reduce innovation incentives for laggards. There are...
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Disclosure and Subsequent Innovation : Evidence from the Patent Depository Library Program
Furman, Jeffrey L. - 2018
essential to the functioning of the patent system, legal scholars have expressed considerable skepticism about its value in … practice. To adjudicate this issue, we examine the expansion of the USPTO Patent and Trademark Depository Library system … between 1975 to 1997. Whereas the exclusion rights associated with patents are national in scope, the opening of these patent …
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Technological Leadership (de)Concentration : Causes in ICTE
Ozcan, Yasin - 2016
Using patents as indicators of inventive activity, this article characterizes the concentration of origins of invention from 1976 to 2010, and how these changed over time. The analysis finds pervasive deconcentration in virtually every area related to ICT, but it can explain only a small part of...
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Invention Value, Inventive Capability and the Large Firm Advantage
Arora, Ashish; Cohen, Wesley M.; Lee, Honggi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
,786 public corporations, and measures of both patent quality and patent value, we find that, while average invention value rises …
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Quality Change and other Influences on Measures of Export Prices of Manufactured Goods and the Terms of Trade between Primary Products and Manufacture
Lipsey, Robert E. - 1994
Measures of long term trends in world export prices of manufactured goods and in the terms of trade between manufactured goods and primary products are sensitive to the choice of country weights and of base periods and, most important of all, the treatment of quality change. Later base periods...
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Trade Prices and the Global Trade Collapse of 2008-2009
Gopinath, Gita - 2011
We document the behavior of trade prices during the Great Trade Collapse of 2008-2009 using transaction-level data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. First, we find that differentiated manufactures exhibited marked stability in their trade prices during the large decline in their trade...
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