examiners to identify the causal effect of a US patent grant on the subsequent export performance of Chinese firms. Successful … first-time patent applicants achieve significantly higher export growth, compared to otherwise similar first-time applicants …We investigate how international patent activity enables firms from emerging economies to thrive in the global …

engaged in an incremental innovation by 4.48% using a random-sampled firm survey in China. The estimate is close to those in …We estimate that a one-standard-deviation increase in a firm's import penetration ratio raises its likelihood of having … incremental innovation. We discuss how the link between imports and innovation in the South differ from that in the North. …

in imports from China on innovation in the US manufacturing sector. We combine patent, firm and trade data during 1990 …-wage countries, especially China. Does this competition hurt or help innovation by firms? This paper studies the effect of the surge … positive effect on firm innovation, as measured by citation-weighted patent applications. This positive effect persists when we …

the links (correlations) between innovation investment, innovation output, firm productivity and export performance. …Recent developments in the new international trade theory stressed the relationship between firm heterogeneity and …

competitiveness. Therefore, the changes in China's IT industry in the USA and Korea and in foreign trade competitiveness and quality …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the trade structure and competitiveness of China's information …-industry trade and intra- industry trade of high- and low-quality goods. Findings – China's IT industry has a comparative competitive …

.S. trade deal with the prices of off-patent originator drugs launched after the deal and subject to its expanded exclusivity …The United States has trade deals with pharmaceutical terms that go beyond the requirements in World Trade Organization … trade agreements affected prices in practice. This working paper examines a decade's worth of pharmaceutical sales data for …

. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the US market's economic …Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … importance, market dynamics, and the significant intertemporal fluctuations in firms' market shares and patents make this an …

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

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

innovation system more closely on private funding and markets, and thus on the acquisition of patents at the front end of the … coming innovation pipeline. The choice to rely on private markets and patents is highly debatable. But it is certain to … climate change technologies. The article then describes six proposals for maximizing the innovation potential of the patent …