This Ph.D. dissertation studies innovation in Germany from 1877 to 1914. The German patents that had survived for at … least ten years are used as a proxy of innovation. The introduction briefly outlines the issues to be investigated. The … distribution of patents across industries and across regions. The second chapter investigates the regional innovation system (RIS …

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 …

Technology and innovation play an increasingly important role in the economic development of both developed and … innovation or imitation by developing a conceptual model and then empirically testing it using pesticide innovation data from a … rapidly developing country, China. We find that the government encouraged local innovation by opening regions to more …

the enactment of the first nationwide German patent law in 1877 and 1932. This patent act enabled both, national and … the cross-border importance of patent protection for domestic and foreign inventors and economies is still …-1932. Therefore, we study the potential influence of patent laws, institutional quality, and primary and secondary schooling. Controls …

Innovation comprises the processes of invention and commercialization. While the importance of innovation, especially … innovation and, in particular, builds on the evolutionary explanation of technology development, the Teecian framework on … profiting from innovation, Transaction Cost Economics (TCE), the Knowledge-Based View (KBV), and open innovation and innovation …

Innovation comprises the processes of invention and commercialization. While the importance of innovation, especially … innovation and, in particular, builds on the evolutionary explanation of technology development, the Teecian framework on … profiting from innovation, Transaction Cost Economics (TCE), the Knowledge-Based View (KBV), and open innovation and innovation …

hypothesis that IPR would provide, in a technologically advanced developing country, incentives for R&D and innovation, IPR play …

We develop a new partial equilibrium, four-region world trade model for the soybean complex comprising soybeans … Rest of the World all gain from the introduction of RR soybeans, although some groups of agents (producers or consumers …) may lose. Compared to free trade with no domestic bans, a ban on RR production in the Rest of the World improves that …