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Of Patents and Property
Bessen, James; Meurer, Michael J. - Research on Innovation - 2009
industries today, patents may actually discourage investment in innovation for fear of winding up on the losing side of a patent … fight, and routine injunctive relief from patent protection may contribute to this problem. …
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Clearings and Thickets
Cooter, Robert; Edlin, Aaron - Ratioinstitutet - 2011
Intellectual property law, which includes patents and copyright law, establishes the ownership of innovations by people. It conveys a bundle of rights to creators as determined by rules. Applied to intellectual property law, the normative question of growth economics is, “Which ownership rules...
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Big patents, small secrets: how firms protect inventions when R&D outcome is heterogeneous
Mosel, Malte - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
mechanisms for medium inventions, and patent their most important innovations. This result reestablishes the traditional view …
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Organizational Forms in the Knowledge Economy: A Comparative Institutional Analysis
Gürpinar, Erkan - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2013
This paper attempts to provide an analytical framework to analyze organizational forms in the knowledge economy. We first outline some historical trends that have transformed the organization of production over the last few decades. We show that this transformation has taken place not only in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686701
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Open innovation, contracts, and intellectual property rights: an exploratory empirical study
Hagedoorn, John; Ridder, Ann-Kristin - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
Our exploratory empirical study, based on a series of in-depth interviews and a survey of firms, searches for answers on a number of questions that deal with the role of formal contracts and intellectual property rights in the context of open innovation. We find that firms active in open...
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The Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Agreement and Agriculture in South Asia
Hirimuthugodage, Dilani - In: South Asia Economic Journal 12 (2011) 2, pp. 287-305
One of the main objectives of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is to facilitate world’s trade and production. It … rights. The Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Agreement was implemented to regulate standards of … Intellectual Property (IP) regulations in WTO member countries. Being a member of the WTO and a signatory to the TRIPs Agreement …
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Innovation on the seed market: the role of IPRs and commercialisation rules
Baudry, Marc; Hervouet, Adrien - Chaire d'Économie du Climat, Université … - 2014
This article deals with the impact of legislation in the seed sector on incentives for variety creation. The first category of rules consists in intellectual property rights and is intended to address a problem of sequential innovation and R&D investments. The second category concerns commercial...
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Institutional Complementarities and Property Rights-Technology Equilibria under Knowledge Intensive Technology
Gurpinar, Erkan - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2013
important factors in the transformation of the world economy over the last three decades. We argue that, at least in part …
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Promoting innovation on the seed market and biodiversity: the role of IPRs and commercialisation rules
Baudry, marc; Hervouet, Adrien - EconomiX, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre la Défense … - 2014
This article deals with the impact of legislation in the seed sector on incentives for variety creation. Two categories of rules interact. The first category consists in intellectual property rights and is intended to address a problem of sequential innovation and R&D investments by the private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781611
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File Sharing and International Sales of Copyrighted Music: An Empirical Analysis with a Panel of Countries
Zentner, Alejandro - In: Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy 5 (2005) 1, pp. 1452-1452
Global music sales have substantially fallen in the last four years. This paper uses a panel of country-level data to investigate the extent to which this is a consequence of file sharing. I find that countries with higher internet and broadband penetration have suffered higher drops in music...
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