Should the intellectual property rights on the first Covid-19 vaccines be temporarily lifted in applying the Trade-Related Aspect of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) flexibility? Is it right to grant the first generation of Covid-19 vaccines a special treatment from an IPR perspective? On what...

Based on the main insights of Schumpeterian growth theory, this paper investigates which R&D-based mechanism is better suited for explaining the pattern of world’s productivity growth. Using post-WWII data for a global sample of 115 countries, we estimate the relationship between productivity...

The 2021 Elite Quality Index (EQx2021) is a global ranking of countries built on the notion of ‘elite quality’. Elite quality is a macro-level feature of the political economy that measures the value creation aggregate of all elite business models. Elites are dominant coalitions with the...

The Elite Quality Index for 2023 (EQx2023) measures 'The Sustainable Value Creation of Nations' and is the fourth annual publication of the internationally comparative ranking of countries. The index aim is to provide a unique dataset for academic research, original insight on the human and...

The multiple features of intellectual property rights and industrial competition are explored through the analytically rigorous lens of the frontier of the economics literature. The book covers a broad range of issues ranging from industrial espionage to collective property rights in cultural...

This paper presents a standard endogenous growth framework in which the source of growth is represented by vertical innovation. The crucial assumption we introduce is that there is a positive information gap concerning the discovery of innovation. The aim of reducing the information...