The idea behind patent policies is to increase the output of commercially useful innovations by creating a transitory … types of considerations need to be addressed. First, there are issues of designing an appropriate patent system. This … intellectual property rights. Second, and more fundamentally, the investments that patent incentives trigger in research and …

, functioning patent system capable of attracting foreign direct investment, motivating domestic innovation and education, and …The decade following India's accession to the World Trade Organization's Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property … ushered in numerous changes to the country's patent system, culminating in a series of amendments in 2005. But a functioning …

The authors present a database of indicators of innovative activity around the world since the early 1960s. The data … include measures of innovation outcomes as well as variables related to innovation effort. The main indicator of innovation … outputs is patents. The main variables related to innovation inputs are investment in research and development (R&D) and …

This paper proposes a quantitative model of firm dynamics with endogenous innovation to study growth acceleration …

The role of innovation in improving productivity might vary according to a country's relative position in technology … advancement. Frontier countries might benefit more from policies that promote firms' internal innovation (create), while follower … countries would gain more from policies favoring the adoption of existing technologies through innovation outsourcing (buy …

, the assessment points to an abundance of innovation -- but a seeming failure of the many innovations to deliver more than …

innovation, firms upgrading their accounting systems, marketing more, making more capital investments, and being more likely to …