We test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations …

We test whether intellectual property rights foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations for a …

-productivity firms in Switzerland. Innovation support sustains firms' R&D activities in both countries. Our structural growth model … identifies the impact of innovation, imitation and R&D costs on firms' R&D decisions. R&D costs gained importance in Switzerland … prioritize enhancing innovation and imitation success over cost reduction to boost productivity growth. …

energy related policies on domestic innovation activities. Under control of the respective domestic policy stringency, we …. Hence, we see that foreign policy impacts domestic innovation primarily from the demand side. We further find that foreign … subsidies negatively affect domestic innovation activities of foreign owned firms operating in domestic. Finally, we find that …