One of the explicit goals of the 1995 TRIPS Agreement is promotion of technological innovation and transfer and dissemination of technologies worldwide. We statistically assess the relative impact of TRIPS on technology diffusion in the life sciences sector, using a longitudinal panel dataset...

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