This paper focuses on Thailand's recent issuance of half a dozen compulsory licenses as a case study to examine the scope of compulsory licensing under TRIPS. This article aims to provide a correct interpretation of compulsory licensing under TRIPS article 31, while simultaneously noting and...

The success of Silicon Valley start-ups has led many countries to look at the beneficial impact of start-ups in creating jobs, improving economic standard of region, providing cutting edge to competition of nation. Not many of the attempts to transplant this typical US system in alien...

The regulatory environment in a country is an important factor that affects firm performance. This study investigates the impact of a particular regulation - license requirements for certain firm activities - on the innovation performance of Indian firms in the 1990s. Using a unique firm-level...

This paper examines the potential role of innovation policy in enhancing long-term productivity growth in Russia. It begins by exploring the role of framework conditions for business in encouraging innovative activities, particularly with respect to intellectual property rights and competition....

Mergers realize heterogeneous competitive effects on profits, production, and prices. To date, it is unclear whether differential merger outcomes are caused mostly by firms' technology or product market attributes. Furthermore, empirical merger studies conventionally assume that, conditional on...

Industrial structures in the "catching up" type of countries usually are not too competitive in nature, and mainly they differ in the low share of hightechnology products in the international trade. The aim of the conducted studies was an attempt to search for directions, as well as the power of...

We analyse the relationship between the composition of innovation partnerships and the potential of their innovations developed within EU-funded research projects under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7), the European Union's Research and Innovation...

We explore the potential roles of industrial policy in the transition from middle-income to high-income status, and the actual experience of industrial policy in emerging economies. Guided by the conceptual framework of the neo-Schumpeterian approach, we look at industrial policy in the context...

This paper considers a theoretical model of n asymmetric firms that reduce their initial unit costs by spending on R&D activities. In accordance with Schumpeterian hypotheses we obtain that more efficient (bigger) firms spend more in R&D and this leads to a more concentrated market structure. We...

Nach den neuesten Ergebnissen des ifo Investitionstests erhöhte das verarbeitende Gewerbe in Westdeutschland mit etwa 46 Mrd. € seine Investitionsausgaben im Jahr 2001 um knapp 2% gegenüber dem Vorjahr. Real lag die Veränderungsrate bei rund einem Prozentpunkt. Damit entwickelten sich die...