Cockburn, Iain M.; Wilsdon, Tim; Pistollato, Michele; … - 2022
One of the explicit goals of the 1995 TRIPS Agreement is promotion of technological innovation and transfer and … dissemination of technologies worldwide. We statistically assess the relative impact of TRIPS on technology diffusion in the life … confounding factors, we find that the pharma-specific provisions in TRIPS have a positive and statistically significant …