The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue.Although a “medical anti … difficult to predict the impact of patenting on biomedical innovation in developing andleast developed countries. This paper … develops a framework of analysis for the impact of patentrights on biomedical innovation in “technology follower” developing …

sociology. The combination provides a richer understanding of how knowledge-based systems of innovation are shaped and … historically changing codes. Some methodological and epistemological implications for studying innovation systems are explicated. …

The present thesis develops a formal model of endogenous growth that incorporates costly knowledge codification as a … means of intergenerational knowledge transfer. It identifies the circumstances under which knowledge codification takes … knowledge codification is central to utilize the non-rivalry of ideas for economic growth. However, while the usual models of …

hypothesis that IPR would provide, in a technologically advanced developing country, incentives for R&D and innovation, IPR play … theory on IPR and a short background on the Mexican maize breeding industry. The analysis of the interviews with maize … breeders leads to the conclusion that the theory on IPR should be revised and take into account the characteristics of …

is solved for equilibrium prices, quantities, production patterns, trade flows, and welfare changes under different … region's welfare at some levels of segregation costs but hurts the United States. Introduction of the same ban in Brazil … benefits its farmers but makes the region worse off, and an import ban on RR products significantly reduces welfare of all …

innovations when the value of an innovation is stochastically reduced to zero because of the evolution of pest resistance. We … frame the problem as a research and development (R&D) investment game in a duopoly model of sequential innovation. We … prefer an intellectual property regime with or without a “research exemption” provision. The study of the welfare function …