Czarnitzki, Dirk; Criekingen, Kristof van - 2021 - This version: August 2021
from negative externalities, i.e. spillovers to other firms, and hence imitation could be induced. To preempt imitation … highlight the trade-off of patenting by setting up a recursive system of equations on knowledge leakage and imitation that … functioning of the contemporary patent system. We find that patenting firms are being less confronted with imitation. The effect …
