fertility of an innovation in generating more innovations cannot be observed. The menu of patent scope can be implemented with …

How do non-practicing entities ("Patent Trolls") impact innovation and technological progress? Although this question …", who exploit the patent system to extract rents and thereby hurt innovation. We employ unprecedented access to NPE … also find that downstream innovation drops in fields where patents have been acquired by NPEs. Finally, our numerical …

Why do firms outsource research and development (R&D) for some products while conducting R&D in-house for similar ones …

encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous. We then …Global climate change mitigation will require the development and diffusion of a large number and variety of new … innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country …

pharmaceutical patent protection alone does not stimulate domestic innovation, as estimated by the US patent awards (both raw counts … innovation acceleration and technology transfer, conditional upon certain country variables. In particular, the interaction … between implementation and the development level, educational attainment, and economic freedom index are shown to have …

Do intellectual property (IP) rights on existing technologies hinder subsequent innovation? Using newly-collected data … estimates the impact of Celera's gene-level IP on subsequent scientific research and product development. Genes initially … scientific research and product development on the order of 20 to 30 percent. Taken together, these results suggest that Celera …

stages of development instead stressed primary and secondary education. The number of undergraduate and graduate students in …

developing countries on the level and composition of industrial development. We develop a North-South product cycle model in … which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts that IPR reform in the South … Southern industrial development. The South's share of global manufacturing and the pace at which production of recently …