competition and intellectual-property laws. It also assumes that innovation is a major contribution to long-run welfare. The paper …This paper examines a number of government policies related to competition or intellectual property and affecting … innovation for their welfare effects. Its premise is that the enhancement of social welfare is included among the purposes of …

, then, we have a uniform patent system that provides technology-neutral protection to all kinds of innovation. Technology … interoperative innovation rather than stand-alone development, and in the extent to which patents cover entire products or merely …The patent statute creates a general set of legal rules that govern a wide variety of technologies. With only a few …

This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and … firms, in terms of patents and trademarks, and we study whether the two instruments for protecting IP exhibit …) between the patents and trademarks owned by the same firm and we then investigate whether such concordance exert any effect on …

This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and … firms, in terms of patents and trademarks, and we study whether the two instruments for protecting IP exhibit …) between the patents and trademarks owned by the same firm and we then investigate whether such concordance exert any effect on …

This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and … provide a rather complete picture of the innovation activities of Italian firms, in terms of patents and trademarks, and we … addition, and to our knowledge novel, we propose a measure of concordance (or proximity) between the patents and trademarks …

We test whether intellectual property rights foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations for a … intellectual property rights. The further impact of fewer competitors is to raise R&D, when initial competition is strong, but to … reduce it, when initial competition is weak ("inverted U"). …

We test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations … actually use IPRs. The further impact of fewer competitors is to raise R&D, when initial competition is strong, but to reduce … it, when initial competition is weak ("inverted U"). …