innovators who seek to discover higher quality products and thereby replace the patent holder. Second, they deter imitators who … seek to capture a portion of the monopoly market by imitating the patent holder’s product. The extent of IPR protection is … the form of a larger subsidy to RPAs. We find that a larger RPA subsidy unambiguously increases the patent holder’s market …

The main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of patent rights and utility model on both economic growth and … development. While patent protection positively effect on economic growth for developed countries, utility model protection … show that patent protection and utility model do not contribute to firm performance in Turkey. …

patent lifetime a government would set in order to maximise economic growth. We show that a finite patent lifetime does exist … of research technology on this optimal patent lifetime …

We develop a Schumpeterian growth model to analyze the interaction between patent policy and firms’ internal strategies … to capture value from innovations. We consider two dimensions of patent policy: backward protection against imitation and … forward protection, also known as blocking patents, against subsequent innovation that builds on a patented technology …