forward protection reduces the rate of innovation and imposing a nonobviousness requirement reduces R&D spending. It is shown … that full protection against imitation, granted independently of the size of the lead, maximizes the average innovation …

There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software …

product groups but different quality, which is not matched by the predictions of traditional and new trade theory. This paper … analyzes a model of North-South trade and endogenous growth through innovation and imitation that can predict the observed … both the innovation in the North and the imitational lag of the South. Opening to trade increases the growth rate and …

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 …

We integrate international business theory on foreign direct investment (FDI) with institutional theory on intellectual …

development theory. Through the lenses of the paradigm based theory of innovation, the authors first recognize that technological …

. The second chapter provides a theory of offshoring under imitation risk that explains optimal dynamic adjustments of firms … intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …

much of the cumulative innovation literature. When the research abilities of the firms differ, either the high ability firm …