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Foreign direct investment spillovers and pharmaceutical innovation : the role of intellectual property rights
Ho, Chun-Yu; Li, Xin; Zhou, Weimin - 2017
This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering … show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect of FDI on domestic innovation when the intellectual property … on why developing countries should encourage FDI and strengthen the IPR regime together to enhance domestic innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011723712
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Chapter 8. Trade, Intellectual Property Rights, and the World Trade Organization
Saggi, K. - 2016
This chapter surveys the literature on international trade and the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in the global economy. The discussion is organized around the major questions in the field. How does openness to trade affect national incentives for patent protection? What is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023447
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Global Collaborative Patents
Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584882
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The Role of the Intellectual Property Rights Regime for Foreign Investors in Post-Socialist Economies
Schnellbächer, Benedikt; Stephan, Johannes - 2009
We integrate international business theory on foreign direct investment (FDI) with institutional theory on intellectual property rights (IPR) to explain characteristics and behaviour of foreign investment subsidiaries in Central East Europe, a region with an IPR regimegap visàvis West European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267046
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Global collaborative patents
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561206
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Market Structure, FDI, Imitation and Innovation : An Empirical Verification Based on North-South Intellectual Property Rights Conflict
Banik, Arindam - 2013
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 …
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Patent boxes design, patents location and local R&D
Alstadsæter, Annette; Barrios Cobos, Salvador; … - 2015
Patent boxes have been heavily debated for their role in corporate tax competition. This paper uses firm-level data for the period 2000-2011 for the top 2,000 corporate research and development (R&D) investors worldwide to consider the determinants of patent registration across a large sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011983778
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Patent boxes design, patents location and local R&D
Alstadsæter, Annette; Barrios Cobos, Salvador; … - 2015
Patent boxes have been heavily debated for their role in corporate tax competition. This paper uses firm-level data for the period 2000-2011 for the top 2,000 corporate research and development (R&D) investors worldwide to consider the determinants of patent registration across a large sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286491
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In Defense of the Patent Friendly Court Hypothesis : Theory and Evidence
Turner, John L. - 2014
This paper studies the puzzle of what caused the surge in US patenting in the 1980s. I first argue that, under the standard view of patents, where value depends only on the appropriable rents created by the patent's exclusive property rights over related technologies and product markets, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065209
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742945