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Patents and Innovation : Evidence from Economic History
Moser, Petra - 2013
existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? And 2) May patent laws influence the direction – as opposed to the rate …What is the optimal system of intellectual property rights to encourage innovation? Empirical evidence from economic … to address problems with the current patent system: 3) How do patent pools, as a mechanism to mitigate litigation risks …
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Patent Pools and Innovation in Substitutes - Evidence from the 19th Century Sewing Machine Industry
Lampe, Ryan; Moser, Petra - 2013
Patent pools, which combine complementary patents of competing firms, are expected to increase overall welfare – but … potentially discourage innovation in substitutes for the pool technology. This paper exploits a new historical data set on changes … industry to investigate the effects of a pool on innovation in substitutes. This analysis reveals a substantial increase in …
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Lessons from the Past : The Venetian Republic’s Tailoring of Patent Protection to the Characteristics of the Invention
Fusco, Stefania - 2019
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Urban Autonomy : Fiefs, Communities and King Owned Towns in South Italy (1000-1806)
Gatti, Fabio - 2022
Urban governance has been considered a key feature in the political and economic development in Europe in the medieval and early modern times. This paper aims to explore the different institutional settings that characterized the community organization in the Kingdom of Naples, with a particular...
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Knowledge Disclosure, Patent Management, and the Four-Stroke Engine Business
Sáiz, Patricio; Amengual, Ruben - 2021
The appropriateness of patent systems has been largely discussed and has led to substantial theoretical debates and … would compensate their social cost. Through an evolutionary approach to a key case study based on a radical innovation and … the disclosure issue, on patent management hidden strategies, and on patent institutions and controversies …
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Patents and Industrialisation : An Historical Overview of the British Case, 1624-1907
Nuvolari, Alessandro - 2015
The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the research on the role played by patent systems in the … whether the emergence of modern patent systems exerted a favorable impact on inventive activities. However, the recent … literature has shed light on a number of fundamental factors which affect the links between inventive activities and the patent …
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The Visible Hand : The Role of Government in China’S Long-Awaited Industrial Revolution
Wen, Yi - 2019
China is undergoing its long-awaited industrial revolution. There is no shortage of commentary and opinion on this dramatic period, but few have attempted to provide a coherent, in-depth, politicaleconomic framework that explains the fundamental mechanisms behind China’s rapid...
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The ICT Revolution in Historical Perspective : Progressive Capitalism as a Response to Marxist Complaints, Piketty Pessimism and Free Market Fanaticism About the Deployment Phase o...
Cooper, Mark - 2015
revolutions based on a framework for analyzing long-term innovation offered by Carlota Perez that extends and combines Schumpeter … that space. The result was an explosion of entrepreneurial experimentation and a virtuous cycle of innovation and …
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Economic Development in Historical Political Economy
Morales-Arilla, Jose; Ricart-Huguet, Joan; Wantchekon, … - 2022
Understanding the primary causes of human prosperity is one of the most important endeavors of social scientists. Much research in the 20th century followed a neo-classical approach which emphasized important factors such as physical capital, human capital, and technological change, but was...
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Auf der Suche nach der nationalen Innovationskultur Deutschlands - die Etablierung der Verfahrenstechnik in der BRD, DDR seit 1950
Pieper, Christine; Handel, Kai Christian - 2003
The role of universities in the system of innovation changed dramatically in the last fifty years. This observation is … in the GDR but did not guarantee the success of the system of innovation. This study examines the process of discipline … innovation. Employing the method of collective biography this study demonstrates that the scientific elites in east and west …
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