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Competition Issues in the Seed Industry and the Role of Intellectual Property

Moschini, GianCarlo - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010

Research and Development (R&D) and innovation are crucial features of the seed industry. To supportlarge R …

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Patents, Research Exemption, and the Incentive forSequential Innovation

Moschini, Giancarlo; Yerokhin, Oleg - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006

We develop a dynamic duopoly model of R&D competition to improve the quality of a finalgood. The innovation process is … other hand, depends onthe relative magnitudes of the costs of initial innovation and improvements. In particular, aresearch …

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Heterogeneity of Southern Countries and SouthernIntellectual Property Rights Policy

Lapan, Harvey E.; Kim, Jeong-Eon - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006

We develop a model with one innovating northern firm and heterogeneous southernfirms that compete in a final product market. We assume southern firms differ in their intrinsiccosts and their ability to adapt technology and study southern incentives to protect intellectualproperty rights. We find...

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Developments in the Organization and Finance of PublicAgricultural Research in the United States, 1988-1999

Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005

This paper describes major external changes to the U.S. public agricultural researchsystem over 1988-1999; describes the reactions of the public agricultural research system to theexternal changes, specifying the innovations that have occurred over the last decade; and drawsconclusions about the present...

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Welfare Effects of Intellectual Property Rights UnderAsymmetric Spillovers

Kim, Jeong Eon; Lapan, Harvey E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004

, efficiency considerations imply that, given policies resulting inthe same overall innovation rate, it would be better to have …

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INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR AND SPATIALLOCATION – USING PATENT COUNTS ANDGEOGRAPHIC LOCATION TO ESTIMATEINNOVATIVE SPILLINS

Miranowski, John A.; Monchuk, Daniel C. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004

In this paper we examine the relation between geographic location and innovative behavior.Knowledge spillins, as opposed to knowledge spillovers, are modeled as an externality which existsbetween geographically close economic agents and enters the representative inventor productionfunction...

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Using patents to mislead rivals

Langinier, Corinne - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004

innovation. Yet, firms do patent, as indicated by the largenumber of patents that are granted. This paper offers a possible … resolution to this puzzle.It takes a simplified version of a duopoly innovation race, and studies the patenting decisionof an … innovator who has private information about the improvability of her innovation.In this setting, it is shown that a firm may use …

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