Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) protection in terms of its impact on innovation and technology transfer, as well as economic … surveying the theoretical and empirical literature linking the protection of IPRs to economic growth, innovation and technology …

innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial … generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further …

Innovation is considered to be an important determinant of performance at the firm, industry and country level. This … domestic innovation is of little importance for most countries. Such countries can benefit from innovation conducted elsewhere … however, if knowledge and technology is diffused across borders. In this paper we survey existing literature on innovation and …

accumulation. Human capital is an important source of sustained growth. By focusing explicity on innovation as an economic activity …

firm innovation. To do so, we create a panel dataset by matching official China Top Brand Award recipients to the … innovation outputs of listed companies. Results from difference-in-differences estimates show that firms that received the China … the China Top Brand Award on innovation outputs operate through higher government subsidies to winning firms. We also find …

requirements should be stronger than in the case of stand-alone innovation. This reduces the fragmentation of intellectual property …