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 …

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

regulation, namely license requirements for certain firm activities, on the innovation performance of Indian firms. First it … panel data set, it shows that removal of license requirements led to roughly 5 percentage points faster innovation rates … where innovation is measured as introduction of new product varieties that had not existed in the market. The results are …

relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the …