This paper examines whether patenting increases the private incentives to innovate in manufacturing. In order to study … this issue, we build a model in which the value of an innovation depends both on the type of innovation implemented … (product, process) and on the existence or not of a patent protection. We obtain a three-equation model that links the values …

firm is willing to pay for a process innovation that it would be the only one to use. We show that different measures of …

politiques internationales de normalisation en liant processus d’innovation, travail de normalisation et structuration des … marchés. Appuyés notamment sur la sociologie de l’innovation et l’économie politique de J. A. Schumpeter, nous proposons d …. Scholars still know few of actors and know-how in this area. The paper tries to analyze simultaneously the innovation processes …

. While the representation of patent characteristics by microeconomic models is very rich and detailed, innovation …At the theoretical level, the establishment of a patent system has two objectives: to encourage firms to produce new … dissemination. This paper discusses how to determine the optimal level of protection across the three dimensions of the patent …

development. The patent is also likely to encourage the production of innovations and ensure the dissemination of knowledge, which … promotes economic growth. This work aims to analyze the situation of patent protection in the framework of the Tunisian economy. …

Political activism positively affects firm innovation. Firms that support more politicians, politicians on … innovation. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that political activism is valuable because it helps reduce political … uncertainty, which, in turn, fosters firm innovation. Also consistent with this hypothesis, we show that politically active firms …

pricing is determining for the incentives for innovation in upstream and downstream industry. Fixed price agreements promote … innovation in downstream and upstream industry by eliminating the opportunistic behaviour of the input supplier and are welfare …

Innovation is widely recognized as a key ingredient of productivity success. This article by Someshwar Rao, Ashfaq … positive relationship between measures of fundamental innovation, labour productivity and GDP per capita across OECD countries …. The authors paint a nuanced portrait of Canada's innovation performance. The existence of an innovation gap with the …