This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering … show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect of FDI on domestic innovation when the intellectual property … on why developing countries should encourage FDI and strengthen the IPR regime together to enhance domestic innovation …

determining patentable subject matter under the American Patent Act, is used as a starting point for a brief review of historical …, philosophical, and cultural influences on subject matter questions in both patent and copyright law. The article suggests that … patent and copyright law jurisprudence was constructed initially by the Court with explicit attention to the relationship …

Novelty is a basic requirement of patent law. An inventor cannot obtain a patent if the invention exists in the “prior …-filed patent document qualifies as prior art as of its filing date — even though the document does not become accessible to the … invention to the public; administrative delay of public accessibility due to Patent Office procedures should not count against …

We use patent applications and their extensions filed by Italian Universities between 1965 and 2002 to analyze their …

university creates its own patent regulation, there is a 9% increase in the likelihood that universities without any internal … patent regulation will adopt one. Implications for university technology transfer policies are discussed …

Almost 30 years ago, researchers began a systematic study of innovation by end users and user firms. At that time, the … phenomenon was generally regarded as a minor oddity. Today, it is clear that innovation by users, generally openly shared, is a … technologies. It is becoming both an important rival to and an important feedstock for producer-centered innovation in many fields …

In his recent discussion of regional innovation systems (RIS), Philip Cooke outlines the two starkly different … interpretations of regional innovation systems. (Regional Innovation Systems, Asymmetric Knowledge and the Legacies of Learning, Draft … 2007). He notes in his review, "Clearly, there are two kinds of regional innovation occurring in these examples. The first …

inverse U-shaped relationship between patent strength and growth: moderate levels of patent protection can stimulate growth …

. Our evidence, which builds on a database that matches research institutions to a sample of their patent applications …, indicates patent applications to the European Patent Office (EPO) filed by research institutions grew faster than industry … patent applications remains low and their ratio of patents granted to applications is below that of industry. An econometric …