This study develops an R&D-based growth model with vertical and horizontal innovation to shed some light on the current … debate on whether patent protection stimulates or stifles innovation. We analyze the effects of patent protection in the form … of blocking patents. We show that patent protection changes the direction of innovation by having asymmetric effects on …

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …

We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction new goods, whose … production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are … substitution between goods and other parameters. Third, we show that the interplay between innovation and standardization may lead …

We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction new goods, whose … production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are … substitution between goods and other parameters. Third, we show that the interplay between innovation and standardization may lead …

innovation decisions, financial decisions and decisions regarding technology adoption/diffusion through patent licensing … innovation decisions. Young R&D-intensive firms might rely more heavily on internal sources and equity than on debt financing …

growth in the developing country is driven by domestic innovation as well as imitation and transfer of foreign technologies … development, the country implements strong IPR protection to encourage domestic innovation. Therefore, the growth-maximizing and …