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Patentschutz in der Volksrepublik China aus der Sicht eines deutschen Technologieunternehmens
von Pöllnitz, Holger - 2007
Vor dem Hintergrund der weiter wachsenden Bedeutung der Volksrepublik China in der Weltwirtschaft beschäftigt sich die Arbeit mit dem dortigen Schutz von Patenten. Das chinesische Patentsystem entspricht dem internationalen Standard des TRIPS-Übereinkommens. Die Analyse von Patentanmeldungen...
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The role(s) of intellectual property Rights for innovation: a review of the empirical evidence and implications for developing countries
Léger, Andréanne - 2007
-traditional functions fulfill important roles. This questions the relevance of domestic patent systems, and indicates the need to reassess … the costs and benefits of the patent system, the use of patents as innovation indicators, and the need for more research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264960
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To Be Financed or Not … - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing
Haeussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009
This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract … British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate … analysis, we find that in the presence of patent applications, VC financing occurs earlier. Our results also show that VCs pay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427765
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Intellectual Property Protection Mechanisms in Research Partnerships
Hertzfeld, Henry R.; Link, Albert N.; Vonortas, Nicholas S. - 2004
A set of U.S.-based companies is investigated regarding the effectiveness of intellectual property protection mechanisms (IPPMs) in the formation of research partnerships. Patents are the most frequently used IPPM to protect both background and foreground knowledge in partnerships. Other IPPMs...
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Endogenous enforcement of intellectual property, North-South trade, and growth
Schäfer, Andreas; Schneider, Maik T. - 2011
While most countries have harmonized intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation, the dispute about the optimal level of IPR-enforcement remains. This paper develops an endogenous growth framework with two open economies satisfying the classical North-South assumptions to study (a)...
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Lost horizons: The noncooperative management of an evolutionary biological system
Goeschl, Timo; Swanson, Timothy M. - 2002
determined by the outcome of a patent race. The specific setting of the model is that of managing microbial resistance to … system of intellectual property rights (IPR). There, firms are involved in a sequence of patent races to supply the … antibiotic with the best cost-effectiveness ratio. The paper studies the structure of the patent race within the industry against …
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Technology and intellectual property: A taxonomy of contemporary markets for knowledge and their implications for development
Cimoli, Mario; Primi, Annalisa - 2008
development theory. Through the lenses of the paradigm based theory of innovation, the authors first recognize that technological …
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Science vs. profit in research: Lessons from the human genome project
Carraro, Carlo; Pomè, Alessandra; Siniscalco, Domenico - 2001
This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)...
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Intellectual property rights, technology transfer and exports in developing countries
Yang, Lei; Maskus, Keith E. - 2008
We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...
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