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Intellectual property rights in a quality-ladder model with persistent leadership

Kiedaisch, Christian - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2012

This article analyzes the effects of intellectual property rights in a quality-ladder model in which incumbent firms preemptively innovate in order to keep their position of leadership. Unlike in models with leapfrogging, granting non-expiring forward protection reduces the rate of innovation...

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Evolution of the Software-as-a-Service Innovation System Through Collective Intelligence

Kim, Kibae; Altmann, Jorn - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2013

One of the notable trends in the software industry is that software vendors provide their software on a platform as a … service. Software users consume those software services or compose new services by combining those existing software services …. The software vendors, their services, software users, and the platform represent an open innovation system. Collective …

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Globalisation of Knowledge Production and Regional Innovation Policy: Supporting Specialized Hubs in the Bangalore Software Industry

Chaminade, Cristina; Vang-Lauridsen, Jan - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2008

This paper is concerned with the changing role of regional innovation systems and regional policies in supporting the transition of indigenous firms in developing countries from competing on low costs towards becoming knowledge providers in global value chains. Special attention is paid to...

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Growth Effects of Non-Proprietary Innovation

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

We study and endogenous growth model where a profit-motivated R&D sector coexists with the introduction of free blueprints invented by philanthropists. These goods are priced at marginal cost, contrary to proprietary ones, which are produced by a monopoly owned by the inventor. We show that...

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Information and intellectual property: The global challenges

Aiyer Ghosh, Rishab; Soete, Luc - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

The paper analyses the contribution of 'golden papers' - seminal works whose ideas remain as fresh and relevant today as when they were first published decades ago - and which continue to dominate academic discourse among successive generations of scholars. The authors analyse why two works...

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Unleashing Business Innovation in Canada

Bibbee, Alexandra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012

This paper discusses how to improve Canada’s business innovation in order to boost labour productivity and output growth. Many general framework conditions are highly favourable to business risk-taking and innovation, including macro stability, openness, strong human capital, low corporate tax...

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From Bricks to Brains: Increasing the Contribution of Knowledge-based Capital to Growth in Ireland

Haugh, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

With sound framework conditions, fine universities, good infrastructure and policies friendly towards foreign direct investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and entrepreneurship are on the right track, but investment in...

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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...

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The Value of European Patents

Gambardella, Alfonso; Harhoff, Dietmar; Verspagen, Bart - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper employs data from an extensive European survey to produce one of the first systematic assessments of the private economic value of patents. The estimated mean of our patent value distribution is higher than 3 million Euros, the median is about one-tenth, and the mode is around a few...

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Are Intellectual Property Rights Evolving Towards the Enclosure of the ‘Intangible Commons’?

Escalona Reynoso, Rafael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Advancements in the areas of Information Technologies (IT) and the New Life Sciences (NLS) are helping redefine the boundaries of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). Although the fast growth of these technological areas may very well be fueled by the existence of the IPR system itself, in...

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