The strengthening of the U.S. patent regime in the early eighties was followed by a sharp increase in patenting but did … development to examine the effects of a patent regime change on the patenting and R&D decisions of firms in complex industries … consider two different environment — one without licensing and one with licensing. While a stronger patent regime leads to …

innovation and finds that they are qualitatively different from those found in earlier studies of more generally representative …, only the largest firms were likely to identify patents as the most important method of appropriating innovation returns … regarding the functioning of the existing systems of intellectual property rights when key policy goals include innovation by …

higher rewards where "ideas are scarce." We then explore how rewards should be structured when the value of an innovation … comes from its applications, and ideas for the innovation may be more or less scarce than ideas for the applications. …

higher rewards where "ideas are scarce." We then explore how rewards should be structured when the value of an innovation … comes from its applications, and ideas for the innovation may be more or less scarce than ideas for the applications. …

imports, and innovation. These chapters span the scope of economic analysis of the globalization of intellectual property and …

the production of innovation within this R&D sector. We look at the specic problem of coordinating the supply of inputs … marketing of the innovation occurs. This pro- perty rights scenario raises two problems, one of efficiency and one of equity …