The conventional viewpoint on the patent system is that it allocates market power in order to stimulate disclosure of … sharp contrast to this traditional view, the patent system can erode, rather than allocate market power. This result can be … obtained, regardless of whether or not it provides prior user rights, by incentivizing firms to patent and, at the same time …

This paper analyzes the effects of a stronger patent regime on innovation incentives, patenting propensity and …. The strength of the patent system, which is a function of litigation success probability and damage recovery proportion …, decrease the innovation's expected profitability. Higher potential reparation also reduces the scientist's expected return on R …

This paper analyzes the effects of a stronger patent regime on innovation incentives, patenting propensity and …. The strength of the patent system, which is a function of litigation success probability and damage recovery proportion …, decrease the innovation's expected profitability. Higher potential reparation also reduces the scientist's expected return on R …

product market competition. We �nd non-monotone relations of patenting propensity, innovation incentives and investment in R … that stronger patent laws reduce (increase) innovation profitability (R&D expenditure) when the market for the new product …We analyze the relationship between innovation attributes and competition intensity in a framework of endogenous …

product patent regime leads to a larger R&D investment. Consumers may also benefit from product patenting. However, if the … of product patent and process patent regimes. We follow a framework generally observed in the drug industry. We show that … number of goods is large enough, the choice of patent regime loses significance with respect to R&D incentives. …

In this article I analysed the trend of innovation in the production system in the Italian regions using ISTAT-BES data …. After presenting a static analysis and innovation trends of the production system, I present a clustering with a k … determinants of innovation in production systems. Finally, the results are critically discussed with economic policy …

patent has with respect to the determinants of innovation systems at regional level. The results are critically discussed …In this article I analyzed the propensity for patenting in Italian regions through the use of ISTAT-BES data. The …