the consequences of a stronger patent system. The first results obtained in our article are rather consistent with the … anti-patent arguments and they do not favour the case for a stronger patent system: higher social welfare and technical … progress are observed in our model in industries with milder patent systems (lower patent height and patent life) …

Cuban institutions dedicated to the stimulation of innovative activity, particularly the patent system. Preliminary findings … suggest three noteworthy claims. First, during the nineteenth century Cuban Creole elites set up a ‘Colonial Innovation System … ‘shadow' economic metropolis of Cuba. Second, despite having the same patent laws as metropolitan Spain, Cuban sugar elites …

in spillover benefits which can provide dynamic efficiency gains to offset the static efficiency losses of the patent … required is, in Australia, a scintilla. This evolution in innovation policy seems never to have been evaluated – case law … decisions reducing the quantum of inventiveness required in Australia for grant of a standard patent. It commences with a short …

survey conducted to beneficiaries, this study reconstructs the progress made by the patent applicants. The results show, on …

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … lower than the social plannerś benchmark, which suggests a role for patent policy. We focus on a "non-infringing inventive … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …

first the requirements for stimulating scientific and technological creation and innovation in the European Research Area … innovation in Romania in relation to industrial property rights. Considering the requirements for stimulating scientific and … technological creation and innovation, we deal with issues on adapting and maintaining dynamism in law and institutional regulations …

In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from … technological synthesis within the broader economy. Using data on patents and patent citations obtained from the PATSTAT …

A temporary change in pay to employed inventors around the time of patent application has been observed in a number of … who hire workers in R&D functions to make product innovations. The innovation process consists of distinct phases … separated by a patent application. Firms compete to attract workers, and workers can transfer part of the generated new …

Innovation and progress in science and technology (Samp;T) top China's economic agenda. The central government …'s guiding policy document for the promotion of innovation is the Medium to Long Term Plan for the Development of Samp;T (the … Samp;T Plan) issued in January 2006. The Samp;T Plan articulates the ambitious goal of China becoming an quot;innovation …