Patent Examination at the State Intellectual Property Office in China -- The Relationship between Trade and Intellectual Property Rights in China -- The Relationship between Foreign Direct Investments and Intellectual Property Rights in China -- Conclusion

The importance of IPR regimes for large firm innovation is well documented but less is known about their impact on typically less innovative self-employed entrepreneurship. The paper sets out to estimate the net effect of the various elements that comprise an IPR regime including the political...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the existence of cross-level moderating effects between national appropriability conditions, individual level predictors and entrepreneurial growth aspirations. We test a multi-level model that connects the determinants of strategic resource allocation...