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Patents : a means to innovation or strategic ends?
Schwarz, Jiri; Stepanek, Martin - 2016
This paper utilizes a data set of over 208,000 U.S. patents applied for between 1975 and 2010 to study development of strategic patenting over time and across industries. With received citations as a measure of patent social value, we use data envelopment analysis to estimate firm-level relative...
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Foreign direct investment spillovers and pharmaceutical innovation : the role of intellectual property rights
Ho, Chun-Yu; Li, Xin; Zhou, Weimin - 2017
This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering … show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect of FDI on domestic innovation when the intellectual property … on why developing countries should encourage FDI and strengthen the IPR regime together to enhance domestic innovation …
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Chapter 48 Agricultural Innovation: Investments and Incentives
Wright, Brian D.; Pardey, Philip G.; Nottenburg, Carol; … - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2533-2603). 2007
set of opportunities for innovation in agricultural biotechnologies. Moreover, the institutional, regulatory and …
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The role of patents and secrecy for intellectual property protection : theory and evidence
Mosel, Malte - 2012
results on the relation between patenting and innovation size are then confronted with survey data for small European firms … framework. -- filing fees ; imitation ; innovation ; probabilistic patent rights ; R&D ; simultaneous innovation ; trade secrets …
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Who patents, how much is real invention and how relevant? : a snapshot of firms and their inventions based on the 2016 SIPO China Patent Survey
Molnár, Margit; Xu, Hui - 2019
China has surpassed the United States in patent applications and has become world leader. Strong patenting activity, however, did not lead to strong productivity growth. The delinking of patenting activity from productivity growth could be explained by quality and relevance issues. Although the...
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Information leakage, imitation, and the patent system
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Criekingen, Kristof van - 2021 - This version: August 2021
From a firm’s perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand …, innovative performance is an important driver of profitability and growth. On the other hand, investments in innovation suffer …
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Delimiting Intellectual Property : Distinct Approaches to Spillovers
Geller, Paul Edward - 2019
This short essay assesses distinct approaches to delimiting intellectual property. Specifically, it addresses claims to control spillovers without which culture cannot move forward, notably spillovers of texts, images, techniques, information, ideas, etc. It contrasts methodologies: on the one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012905318
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Intellectual Property Infringement as Vandalism
Manta, Irina D. - 2015
Defenders of strong intellectual property rights often maintain that intellectual property infringement is theft, and that the sanctions associated with it ought to be high. Others are skeptical of the property comparison and think that much lower sanctions are appropriate. We argue that a...
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International patent protection and trade : transaction-level evidence
De Rassenfosse, Gaétan; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele - 2020
This paper investigates the extent to which international trade hinges onpatents. We analyze the export and patenting activities of the universe of French exporting firms over the period 2002-2011. The noticeable feature of our study is that we observe export and patenting activities worldwide...
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Information Leakage, Imitation, and the Patent System
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Criekingen, Kristof van - 2021
From a firm’s perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand …, innovative performance is an important driver of profitability and growth. On the other hand, investments in innovation suffer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323135