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Of Mice and Academics : Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation

Murray, Fiona - 2009

maintain discretion over their research agenda and allow others to build on their discoveries. This paper examines the … granting of control rights to researchers. Within this framework, openness of upstream research does not simply encourage … higher levels of downstream exploitation. It also raises the incentives for additional upstream research by encouraging the …

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Inventors and Pirates : Creative Activity and Intellectual Property Rights

Grossman, Herschel I. - 2000

This paper analyzes how both the value of ideas created as well as the security of intellectual property rights result from the choices of potentially creative people either to engage in creative activity or to be pirates, and from decisions of people who are engaged in creative activity to...

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Damages and Injunctions in the Protection of Proprietary Research Tools

Schankerman, Mark - 1999

Profit on proprietary research tools is determined partly by the remedies for infringement, such as damages and … affect the incentives to develop research tools. We show that the prevailing legal doctrine of damages under liability rule … damages. This can create insufficient incentives to develop research tools. Incentives can be improved either by a property …

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Innovation Fertility and Patent Design

Hopenhayn, Hugo A. - 1999

It may be advantageous to provide a variety of kinds of patent protection to heterogenous innovations. Innovations which benefit society largely through their use as building blocks to future inventions may require a different scope of protection in order to be encouraged. We model the problem...

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Do Stronger Patents Induce More Innovation? Evidence from the 1988 Japanese Patent Law Reforms

Sakakibara, Mariko - 1999

Does an expansion of patent scope induce more innovative effort by firms? This article provides evidence on this question by examining firm responses to the Japanese patent reforms of 1988. Interviews with practitioners suggest the reforms significantly expanded the scope of patent rights in...

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Rewards versus Intellectual Property Rights

Shavell, Steven - 1999

This paper compares reward systems to intellectual property rights (patents and copyrights). Under a reward system, innovators are paid for innovations directly by government (possibly on the basis of sales), and innovations pass immediately into the public domain. Thus, reward systems engender...

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The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights : A Survey of the Empirical Literature

Lanjouw, Jean O. - 1997

This paper examines several recent avenues of empirical research into the enforcement of" intellectual property rights …

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Trade and Environment Beyond Singapore

Whalley, John - 1996

This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...

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How to Count Patents and Value Intellectual Property : Uses of Patent Renewal and Application Data

Lanjouw, Jean O. - 1996

Patent counts are very imperfect measures of innovative output. This paper discusses how additional data-the number of years a patent is renewed and the number of countries in which protection for the same invention is sought - can be used to improve on counts in studies which require a measure...

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Innovation, Imitation, and Intellectual Property Rights

Helpman, Elhanan - 1992

The debate between the North and the South about the enforcement of intellectual property rights in the South is examined within a dynamic general equilibrium framework in which the North innovates new products and the South imitates them. A welfare evaluation of a policy of tighter intellectual...

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