We study the innovation, efficiency and productivity response to intellectual property (IP) reform vis-à-vis manufacturing industry in India. Studying the response of IP-sensitive industries relative to a control group of IP-insensitive industries, and using the fact that the IP reform was...

Very little empirical evidence exists on the relationship between intellectual property rights and innovation. Existing studies tend to be indirect and do not consider the influence of IPRs on innovation per se; nor do they adequately allow for the endogeneity of IPRs. Correcting for these...

The innovation, efficiency and productivity responses to the stronger protection of intellectual property rights post-TRIPs, with reference to manufacturing industry in India is studied. The fact that the post-TRIPs strengthening of IPRs in India were largely exogenous enables us to correct for...