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(IPRs) enforcement, with special reference to injunctions in India. It examines how far the courts consider the implications …
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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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In the context of the WTO, intellectual property rights (IPR) are codified in the TRIPS-agreement. While covering all the different types of IPR, landmark cases of the still young history of TRIPS have dealt with commercial copyrights. This paper summarizes the basic economics of the IPR branch...
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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 …
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distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …
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The role patents play for innovation is not clear, but patenting activity has increased in the last decades. This … article reviews the empirical evidence on traditional and novel roles of patents to assess their impacts on innovation in … developing countries. It shows that patents are not likely to support innovation in developing countries, even though their non …
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We integrate international business theory on foreign direct investment (FDI) with institutional theory on intellectual property rights (IPR) to explain characteristics and behaviour of foreign investment subsidiaries in Central East Europe, a region with an IPR regimegap visàvis West European...
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innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial … generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further …
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There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software …
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