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Venture Capital, Patenting, and Usefulness of Innovations

Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

sufficiently better at judging an idea's value and if it is sufficiently more costly to patent low than high value ideas, VCs …-run performance, but also infl ates their acquisition prices, and lowers their acquirers' overall profits. Patent law usefulness …

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey

Brusoni, Stefano; Crespi, Gustavo; Francoz, Dominique; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and...

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To What Extent Should Less-Developed Countries Enforce Intellectual Property?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper discusses a number of issues in the context of the debate on intellectual property in less developed countries (LDCs). It starts by discussing the consequences of IP enforcement in LDCs for global innovation and welfare in poorer countries. It then considers the costs and benefits of...

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Welfare Effects of Intellectual Property in a North-South Model of Endogenous Growth with Comparative Advantage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper develops a model for analysing the costs and benefits of intellectual property enforcement in LDCs. The North is more productive than the South and is the only source of innovator. There are two types of goods, and each bloc has a comparative advantage in producing a specific type of...

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Parallel Imports and Price Controls

Grossman, Gene; Lai, Edwin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Price controls create opportunities for international arbitrage. Many have argued that such arbitrage, if tolerated, will undermine intellectual property rights and dull the incentives for investment in research-intensive industries such as pharmaceuticals. We challenge this orthodox view and...

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Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis

Szymanski, Stefan; Valletti, Tommaso - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper analyses the issue of parallel trade (arbitrage) for products protected by intellectual property rights. Many countries have traditionally allowed owners of intellectual property rights to prohibit arbitrage in the face of international price discrimination. In a well-known paper...

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Free Trade and Protection of Intellectual Property Rights: Can We Have One Without the Other?

Goh, Ai Ting; Olivier, Jacques - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

welfare implications of an international agreement on one or both policy instruments. High tariffs and low patent protection …-sum transfers, and lower mark-up. Both high tariffs and low patent protection reduce the incentives for firms to do R&D, and, hence …

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International Protection of Intellectual Property

Grossman, Gene; Lai, Edwin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

policies in a non-cooperative regime of patent protection, we ask, ‘why are patents longer in the North?’ We also study … international patent agreements by deriving the properties of an efficient global regime of patent protection and asking whether … harmonization of patent policies is necessary or sufficient for global efficiency. …

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Intellectual Property Rights and Entry into a Foreign Market: FDI vs Joint Ventures

Leahy, Dermot; Naghavi, Alireza - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper investigates how the mode of entry into a foreign market can be influenced by the intensity of R&D in an industry and the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) in a recipient country. It then analyzes the link between the IPR regime and policies that place limits on the...

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On the price elasticity of demand for patents

de Rassenfosse, Gaétan; van Pottelsberghe de la … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper investigates whether patent fee policies are a potential factor underlying the boom in patent applications … observed in major patent offices. We provide the first panel-based evidence suggesting that fees affect the demand for patents … in three major patent offices (EPO, USPTO and JPO), with a price elasticity of about -0.4 (similar to that of the …

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