) adjustment processes, thus reassessing the appropriability ad disclosure function of patents. Then, the paper presents a taxonomy … appropriability, within the perspective of policies shaping scientific, technological and production capabilities in the light of … development theory. Through the lenses of the paradigm based theory of innovation, the authors first recognize that technological …

beyond a mechanical interpretation of patent law or copyright law. Instead, with years of experience in innovation, imitation … economic potential in China. Such reform is an on-going system project involving not only patent, trademark and copyright laws …, but also privatization policies, trade and FDI policies, as well as the role of the government in China’s innovation …

deliver positive economic results. Reforms concerning patent protection have tended to deliver the most substantial results …

unique dataset on patents from the USPTO for a maximum of 125 countries over the period 1975-2005, we show that, despite the … overall patenting on technical efficiency, indicating that a certain threshold in numbers of patents per capita must be …

-statutory (trade secrets, design complexity, and lead-time advantage over competitors) or statutory (patent, design registration … appropriability mechanisms. The aim of this paper is to determine how French firms’ use of intellectual property protection mechanisms … relates to the type of innovation, the characteristics of the market sector in which they operate, the firms’ characteristics …

-statutory (trade secrets, design complexity, and lead-time advantage over competitors) or statutory (patent, design registration … appropriability mechanisms. The aim of this paper is to determine how French firms’ use of intellectual property protection mechanisms … relates to the type of innovation, the characteristics of the market sector in which they operate, the firms’ characteristics …

trademarks? Using a representative sample of German firms, the present paper links certain firm characteristics to a firms …' propensity to register trademarks. The empirical results point to circumstances under which trademarks are significantly more … engaged in R&D and introduces innovative products. Trademarks are considerably less frequently used if none of this is the …