are implemented in TRIPS and TRIPS+ agreements and I study the consequences for Developing Countries. …

Has upgrading and enforcing its patent laws slowed China’s economic growth? The answer we draw from detailed analysis … elusive. Our best estimate of the direct impact of the 1992 and 2001 patent laws on TFP growth amounts to not quite 15 percent … correlated with promulgation of the patent laws. We infer that amount of technology transfer through a FDI and the focus of R …

The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue. Although a "medical anti … develops a framework of analysis for the impact of patent rights on biomedical innovation in "technology follower" developing … difficult to predict the impact of patenting on biomedical innovation in developing and least developed countries. This paper …

innovation in the world. Allowing for the possibility that countries discriminate against foreign firms in Nash equilibrium does …I extend the Grossman and Lai (2004) model to answer the question, "Would global patent protection be too weak without …

An instrumental variable econometric model is specified to investigate how changes in a country’s patent protection for … pharmaceutical innovations are related to patent awards from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to the country’s applicants. We use … a new measure of patent protection for pharmaceutical innovations, the PIPP Index, to account for cross …

to patent protection on pharmaceuticals that can affect health care and delivery in developing countries. The potential …) How can developing countries deal with price increases that can result from increased patent protection to ensure access … that intellectual property rights may have on restricting their space for innovation and learning in the pharmaceutical …

This article contributes to the literature on innovation and development by identifying the determinants of innovation … determinants of innovation to be different for industrialized and developing countries. This is supported by endogeneity tests …