This paper begins by surveying recent economic studies of the relationships between technology transfer, intellectual property, innovation and diffusion in emerging countries.  It applies this literature to the Indian case.  India  is a potentially useful case study for several reasons. ...

Economists view intellectual property rights (IPRs) as policy tools for encouraging innovation. There are many types of IPRs and of institutions concerned with their administration. We begin by outlining how these complex and varied rights are supposed to work and how they interact with other...

Investigates the stock market valuation of the research anddevelopment (R&D) and intellectual property (IP) activities of quotedcompanies in the United Kingdom. Unlike previous studies, this analysisconsiders the extent to which the stock market's valuation of firm-levelinnovation varies across...