This paper develops a three-stage model of innovation, fixed-fee licensing and production to evaluate the welfare … effects of compulsory licensing, taking into account both static (information sharing) and dynamic (innovation incentive …

investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …

We test whether intellectual property rights foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations for a …

intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …

We test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … surveys such as the “innovation survey” of firms and the inventor survey. They have deepened our understanding of the …

Innovation in agriculture differs from innovation elsewhere in the economy in several important ways. In this chapter … mean that the nature and extent of market failures in the provision of agricultural research and innovation differ from …. Informal innovation and technical discovery processes characterized agriculture from its beginnings some 10,000 years ago …

constraints or the promotion of follow-on innovation. …

This paper explores whether the patent law and intellectual property rights (IPR) system have resulted in innovation in … which factors would explain innovation in China. We find the main determinants of patents to be R&D expenditure and foreign … laws in China have been associated with innovation that has accompanied economic growth despite imperfections in the legal …