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Intellectual property rights and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship
Ács, Zoltán J.; Sanders, Mark - 2008
We develop a model in which stronger protection of intellectual property rights has an inverted U-shaped effect on innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial exploration that would otherwise accrue to the...
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Strategic intellectual property protection policy and north-south technology transfer
Naghavi, Alireza - 2003
I analyze the welfare implications of protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) in developing countries through its impact on innovation, market structure, and technology transfer. FDI, tariffs, and joint ventures (JV) are introduced to the strategic IPR literature. In a North-South trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293775
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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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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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Notes on the Determinants of Innovation: A Multi-Perspective Analysis
Crespi, Francesco - 2004
The study of innovation and technological change is an increasing field of economic enquire because innovation can be considered a major engine of growth. This paper is concerned with the determinants of innovation and technological change. Different theoretical approaches present in the...
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Lost horizons: The noncooperative management of an evolutionary biological system
Goeschl, Timo; Swanson, Timothy M. - 2002
is unlikely to generate the socially optimal number of antibiotics because IPR systems (1) create incentives for … sequential rather than simultaneous innovation; (2) generate incentives that decline with the number of previous (shelved …) discoveries; and (3) generate incentives that respond perversely to increases in biological system velocity. These results …
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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
This paper aims to contribute to frame the IP for development debate into a more extensive discussion on appropriability, within the perspective of policies shaping scientific, technological and production capabilities in the light of development theory. Through the lenses of the paradigm based...
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Italian policy towards cooperation in R&D
Battaggion, Maria Rosa; Bussoli, Patrizia - 2000
This paper explores the various policies implemented in Italy to foster innovative activities and to regulate the technological effects on market competition and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Research promotion has primarily taken the form of facilitated credits and grants to stimulate R&D...
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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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