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Does intellectual monopoly stimulate or stifle innovation?
Chu, Angus C.; Cozzi, Guido; Galli, Silvia - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 4, pp. 727-746
This study develops an R&D-based growth model with vertical and horizontal innovation to shed some light on the current … debate on whether patent protection stimulates or stifles innovation. We analyze the effects of patent protection in the form … of blocking patents. We show that patent protection changes the direction of innovation by having asymmetric effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010573233
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Innovation and Economic Growth: Factors that Encourages Innovation .
Martín, Miguel-Ángel Galindo; Ribeiro, Domingo; … - In: Cuadernos de Gestión 12 (2012) SI, pp. 51-58
relationship between innovation and economic growth is studied, being economic growth the current main objective of economic policy …
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When does elastic labor supply cause an inverted-U effect of patents on innovation?
Chu, Angus C.; Pan, Shiyuan; Sun, Minjuan - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 1, pp. 211-213
This study analyzes how patent protection affects innovation in an R&D-based growth model with elastic labor supply. We … find that increasing patent breadth may generate an inverted-U effect on innovation depending on whether the model features … the knowledge-driven or lab-equipment innovation process. This result highlights an important interaction between elastic …
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Human capital and economic growth: Sweden 1870–2000.
Ljungberg, Jonas; Nilsson, Anders - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 3 (2009) 1, pp. 71-95
in different forms of education, stretching as far back as 1812, and the size and age distribution of the population …
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Brain Drain and Distance to Frontier
Di Maria, C.; Stryszowski, P.K. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006
productivity increases either through imitation or innovation, and both activities use the same types of human capital as inputs …
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Government and Growth
Zarin-Nejadan, Milad - Institut de recherches économiques (IRENE), Faculté … - 2011
The relative size of the State in industrialized economies has increased dramatically during the past century giving rise to legitimate fears that such a trend might end up having an adverse impact on growth. This paper explores the relationship between the development of government activities...
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Political persistence and economic growth
Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Prarolo, … - In: European Journal of Political Economy 31 (2013) C, pp. 165-179
Using data for a panel of 62 partly to fully democratic countries in the period 1984–2008, we provide evidence that political persistence (measured as the longest tenure in office of main political entities) is negatively associated with growth, after controlling for country and time fixed...
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Theory and Empirics of Stage-Dependent Intellectual Property Rights
Chu, Angus C.; Cozzi, Guido; Galli, Silvia - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2013
growth in the developing country is driven by domestic innovation as well as imitation and transfer of foreign technologies … development, the country implements strong IPR protection to encourage domestic innovation. Therefore, the growth-maximizing and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627328
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Stage-dependent intellectual property rights
Chu, Angus C.; Cozzi, Guido; Galli, Silvia - In: Journal of Development Economics 106 (2014) C, pp. 239-249
growth in the developing country is driven by domestic innovation as well as imitation and transfer of foreign technologies … development, the country implements strong IPR protection to encourage domestic innovation. Therefore, the growth-maximizing and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010719867
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The Role of Mortality in the Transmission of Knowledge
Bar, Michael; Leukhina, Oksana - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2009
We investigate, both theoretically and quantitatively, a previously unexplored link between adult mortality and growth. Our mechanism allocates a central role to individuals as carriers of useful ideas and to personal contact as an important means of passing on the useful ideas to future...
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