This paper explores the way that intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection affects firm-level productivity growth … effects of both patenting and importing activities on firm productivity in Chinese manufacturing. The productivity effect of … affected by IPRs. I also find that overstrict protection of IPRs can reduce the productivity impact of both channels and firms …

find a link between patent propensity, R&D and innovation performance. Descriptive analyses show that Polish manufacturing …. It also turns out that the perceived effectiveness of a patent depends on a firm's size, theinnovation type and … increase in patent propensity affects the firm's innovation performancepositively. …

, process) and on the existence of a patent protection or not. We obtain a three-equation model that links the values of product … and process innovations to the value of patent protection. This model and the feature of the data imply the estimation of … a censored trivariate Probit model. We reach two main conclusions. First, the value of patent rights increases the …

This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across … reforms matter more for increasing productivity growth at the aggregate and sectoral levels for some emerging market and … payoffs, the paper also examines how productivity gains from various reforms evolve over the the short- and medium-term …

the probability that a firm in the manufacturing and service sectors applies for a patent during 2005-2009, but no …

creation alliances lead to more valuable patents as they receive significantly more forward citations per patent. Knowledge … exchange alliances, on the other hand, are associated with patent quantity, but not quality. …

through both factor accumulation and raising productivity. Our findings were robust to alternative measures of patent rights …The objective of patent rights is to foster innovation and economic growth. However, to date, there is little robust … evidence that patents ldquo;workrdquo; as intended. Here, we study the impact of changes in effective patent rights within …

sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …