affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are … known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to introduce market novelties (innovation). Using a sample of 1253 … effectiveness is low or medium, both innovation and imitation are enhanced, whereas if it is high, only innovation is enhanced …

the pharmaceutical industry. In this proposed theoretical and empirical work, innovation from the North, followed by … oligopolistic market induced by vertical innovation, tighter IPRs may hurt both economies; while in a monopolistic competition … market induced by horizontal innovation, tighter IPRs may benefit both economies as long as the degree of IPR protection is …

innovation. We present novel data on the frequency with which innovative German firms encounter problems with access to … intellectual property (IP) for innovation. While only a small percentage of all firms report halting or not starting innovation …

Property Administration affect firm innovation activities in China. The difference-in-difference regression with a matched … sample indicates that the recognition of IP model cities increases firm innovation output and productivity, and the primary … innovation output is driven by local government support in fiscal and taxation policies. In detail, high-tech firms benefit from …

adequacy of current enforcement tools and strategies. A lack of adequate enforcement tools might well undermine the innovation …

in intellectual property rights on the patenting and innovation strategies of Chinese and Western firms operating in … property rights and legal institutions that foster R&D and innovation, and when Western firms gain longer operational … informal institutional environments. It also provides important implications for policy and innovation strategies for …

How do non-practicing entities (“Patent Trolls”) impact innovation and technological progress? We employ unprecedented … innovation drops when patents are acquired by NPEs. Quantitatively, the overall impact of NPEs depends on the share of …

The impact of parallel trade on innovation in R&D-intensive industries, such as pharmaceuticals, is a hotly debated … question in antitrust and IP policy. The well known argument that parallel trade dampens innovation by undermining firms …, parallel trade increases innovation by reducing governments' incentives to set particularly low price caps. In this paper, we …