Does stronger protection of intellectual property stimulate innovation?

This work incorporates the idea that the protection of intellectual property rights may hinder the free flow of scientific knowledge from innovations in a standard endogenous growth model and finds that stronger protection of intellectual property rights may discourage innovation.

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Gangopadhyay, Kausik ; Mondal, Debasis
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 116.2012, 1, p. 80-82
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Intellectual property rights \| Endogenous growth \| Innovation \| Knowledge spillover

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; O34 - Intellectual Property Rights: National and International Issues ; O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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