We develop a dynamic duopoly model of R&D competition to improve the quality of a finalgood. The innovation process is … production model under two distinct intellectual property right (IPR) regimes,essentially a patent system with and without a … other hand, depends onthe relative magnitudes of the costs of initial innovation and improvements. In particular, aresearch …

This paper provides new information, not available from other sources, on the characteristics ofthe innovation process … for short) of 9,017 patents granted by theEuropean Patent Office (EPO) between 1993 and 1997, located in France, Germany …

foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensingafter World War I under the Trading with the … Enemy Act to examine the long run effects of compulsorylicensing on domestic invention. Difference-in-differences analyses … of nearly 200,000 chemical inventionssuggest that compulsory licensing increased domestic invention by at least 20 …

foradjacent regions. One main finding is that the quality of the university research makes somecontribution to regional innovation …

consistent approach to integrate innovation, space and economic growth into a coherent theoretical framework A potential reason …. To shed some additional light on the spatial dimension of innovation we present results of a first-cut analysis building … on a recently developed cross sectional-time series data set of US innovation, private and university research and high …

thought to influence the firm’s innovation activity. We examine more than eightyvariables that approximate the financial …

In an experimental setting, firms in a duopoly market engage in a patent tournamentand compete for profit … theensuing innovation race, firms interact through information spillovers resulting fromthe imperfect appropriability of research … of agents who are engaged in innovation activities. As a key element wetest to what extend relative economic performance …

We show that if patent protection and trade secrecy generate asymmetricmarket structure, an innovator may prefer patent …