-expiring forward protection reduces the rate of innovation and imposing a non-obviousness requirement reduces R&D spending. It is shown … that full protection against imitation, granted independently of the size of the lead, maximizes the average innovation …

Competition policy and intellectual property rights (IPR) protection policy play a significant role in the innovation …

This article analyzes the effects of intellectual property rights protection on innovation in a quality-ladder model in … monopoly innovator, we show that reducing IP protection can increase the average innovation rate by regularly destroying … innovation rate, however, increases in the strength of IP protection for most market structures. In each case, we derive the …

. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …

has changed the essential nature of innovation - driven by widespread access to the ability to replicate and improve … - remains the same. Hence a focus on endogenous innovation policy is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago. …