-effects regressions, this study yields robust results. National patent protection alone does not stimulate domestic innovation, as …This paper evaluates the effects of patent protection on pharmaceutical innovations for twenty-six countries that … established pharmaceutical patent laws during 1978-2002. Controlling for country characteristics through matched sampling …

affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are … known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to introduce market novelties (innovation). Using a sample of 1253 … German firms from manufacturing and services sectors I show that the perceived effectiveness of patent protection positively …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …

competition towards competition based on technical inventions, a worldwide surge in patenting took place, and the 'patent thicket …

find a link between patent propensity, R&D and innovation performance. Descriptive analyses show that Polish manufacturing … increase in patent propensity affects the firm's innovation performancepositively. …This paper tries to find how firms use IPRs in the form of patents to protect innovation capital and find determinants …

This paper develops a three-stage model of innovation, fixed-fee licensing and production to evaluate the welfare … effects of compulsory licensing, taking into account both static (information sharing) and dynamic (innovation incentive …

. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for … to patent at the EPO. Results show that, in the short-run, IPR stimulate innovation. The effect for developing countries …This paper analyses the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on pharmaceutical innovation in a panel of …

As sustainable innovation becomes a strategy for companies to gain competitive advantage, the question of how to profit … from sustainable innovation becomes central. Surprisingly, little research exists on the appropriation strategies of … companies engaged in sustainable innovation and the few studies are poorly connected. This chapter focuses on intellectual …

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 …