differentiation and component innovation. We show that, as the complexity of the product spaces increases, stronger patent regimes … yield lower rates of innovation, lower product quality and lower consumers' welfare. -- Patents ; appropriability of … innovation ; complex product industries ; industrial dynamics …

an innovation rewarding institution. According to our analysis, pharma patents have constituted legal barriers to protect … witnessed by the fact that patent applications are very skewed in the covered trade names and patent thickness expands over time …. Conversely, the number of patents protecting new drugs approved by the FDA which draw upon government-sponsored research - as …

across bodies of innovative knowledge, proxied by the patent classes where the firm is present. Putting it more emphatically … matching information on patents and products at the firm level, we provide evidence concerning firms' technological and product …

across bodies of innovative knowledge, proxied by the patent classes where the firm is present. Putting it more emphatically … matching information on patents and products at the firm level, we provide evidence concerning firms' technological and product …

across bodies of innovative knowledge, proxied by the patent classes where the firm is present. Putting it more emphatically … matching information on patents and products at the firm level, we provide evidence concerning firms' technological and product …

across bodies of innovative knowledge, proxied by the patent classes where the firm is present. Putting it more emphatically … matching information on patents and products at the firm level, we provide evidence concerning firms' technological and product …

differentiation and component innovation. We show that, as the complexity of the product spaces increases, stronger patent regimes … yield lower rates of innovation, lower product quality and lower consumers' welfare. …

an innovation rewarding institution. According to our analysis, pharma patents have constituted legal barriers to protect … witnessed by the fact that patent applications are very skewed in the covered trade names and patent thickness expands over time …. Conversely, the number of patents protecting new drugs approved by the FDA which draw upon government-sponsored research - as …

differentiation and component innovation. We show that, as the complexity of the product spaces increases, stronger patent regimes … yield lower rates of innovation, lower product quality and lower consumers' welfare. localized ones. …