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relationship between regulation - both through competition policy and patent law - and innovation, and the corresponding …This essay is the introduction to a forthcoming volume entitled, Regulating Innovation: Competition Policy and Patent … regulation, innovation, and economic growth, the process of innovation itself is not well understood. The regulation of …
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Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over a long horizon …. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the US market's economic …
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Competition agency guidelines, policy statements and related advocacy are an important vehicle for policy expression … guidelines and policy statements has, arguably, been particularly important in the context of the competition policy treatment of … intellectual property rights, given the complexity of this area, the importance that competition agencies attach to it, and its …
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The rapid productivity gains achieved by technological innovations in the 20th century have slowed in recent decades. This has come at a time of increased market concentration. In this paper, I explore how dominant companies in concentrated sectors have siphoned off inventors that might have...
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This paper analyzes M&A patterns of R&D projects in the antidiabetics industry. For this purpose, we construct a database with all corporate individual antidiabetics R&D projects over the period 1997 - 2017, and add detailed information on firms' technology dimension using patent information,...
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Antitrust in Preventing Patent Holdup. In contrast, they are neglected by the current Assistant Attorney General of the … Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, Makan Delrahim.This Essay does four things. First, it explains why the Shapiro … economics. Second, it raises questions related to standards organizations' rules and antitrust law that the authors could more …
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system. This Article resolves the patent-antitrust paradox in three steps. First, it offers innovation as the common …The issues presented by the intersection of the patent system and the antitrust laws have never been as pressing as … the path of innovation. They form patent pools for laser eye surgery, MPEG-2 video compression technology, and DVD …
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We examine the accessibility and functioning of the patent system in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, a state that existed between 1815 and 1830. The country's patent law combined an examination process with significant government discretion over a patent's duration and cost. Using our...
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We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …
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We show a causal impact of immigration on innovation and dynamism in US counties. To identify the causal impact of … recent decades. We show four main results. First, immigration has a positive impact on innovation, measured by the patenting … impact of immigration on innovation percolates over space, but spatial spillovers quickly die out with distance. Fourth, the …
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