Using a difference-in-difference approach, we study how intellectual property right (IPR) protection affects innovation … in China in the years around the privatizations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE …

Innovation is crucial to economic growth – the essential path for lifting much of the world population out of dire … poverty and for maintaining the living standard of those who already have. To stimulate innovation, the legal system has to … institutions supported for the specific purpose of stimulating innovation. Whilst the protection of secrets has not changed very …

This paper analyses the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on pharmaceutical innovation in a panel of …. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for … to patent at the EPO. Results show that, in the short-run, IPR stimulate innovation. The effect for developing countries …

This paper analyzes the optimal protection strategy for an innovator of a complex innovation who faces the risk of … imitation by a competitor. We suppose that the innovation can be continuously fragmented into sub-innovations. We characterize … fraction of the innovation once. We also study the optimal dynamic patenting policy in a soft novelty regime, when the …

and direction of innovation, but at the same time confined to the role of payer of first and last resort, with dire …

From a firm’s perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand …, innovative performance is an important driver of profitability and growth. On the other hand, investments in innovation suffer …

an innovation rewarding institution. According to our analysis, pharma patents have constituted legal barriers to protect …

rights (IPR) protection and innovation, there has been no empirical evidence that clearly supports such a relationship. In … particular, this relationship may also depend on the measures of innovation. Exploiting the establishment of Chinese specialized … impacts innovation. Measuring innovation by both input and output, we find that establishing an IP court reduces the number of …