"Research on the effects of patent protection on innovation and technology transfer in the cross-country pharmaceutical … national pharmaceutical patent laws during the period from 1978 to 2002. This paper is a companion piece that extends the … research to evaluating the effects of patent reforms on inward foreign direct investment (FDI) establishments and imports in …

pharmaceutical patent protection alone does not stimulate domestic innovation, as estimated by the US patent awards (both raw counts … either. Imports, however, did flourish. Second, national patent law implementation demonstrates conditional importance for … positive relationships with the domestic R&D expenditure and domestic pharmaceutical patent awards in the US. The interaction …

Research on the effects of patent protection on innovation and technology transfer in the cross-country pharmaceutical … national pharmaceutical patent laws during the period from 1978 to 2002. This paper is a companion piece that extends the … research to evaluating the effects of patent reforms on inward foreign direct investment (FDI) establishments and imports in …