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Financial constraints are particularly severe for R&D projects of SMEs, which cannot generally rely on equity markets and, in the EU, on a sufficiently developed VC industry. If innovative SMEs have to depend on banks to finance their R&D projects, it is particularly important to develop models...
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skewed distribution of patent values. Our measure is significantly correlated with the number of patent citations, references …, claims, and countries in which the patent is applied. Citations explain value as much as the other three indicators combined …, and the right tail of citations is correlated with the right tail of our value measure. Yet, the four indicators only …
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This paper revises and updates the Campi-Nuvolari index of intellectual property protection for plant varieties (Campi and Nuvolari, 2015). The new index has been updated and provides yearly scores for the period 1961-2018 for a total number of 104 countries, which have legislation on plant...
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This article provides an evaluation of the language policy of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). It focuses on the reform occurred in 2008, when the Korean language was given the status of a language of publication of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). Results show that the...
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In today's world, the thrust to development is seen not only as a policy perspective but also as a national goal. 'Intellectual property' has come out as a critical variant of technology and the growth process ensuing thereon. Consistently being cited as an impetus to economic development and...
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This paper revises and updates the Campi-Nuvolari index of intellectual property protection for plant varieties (Campi and Nuvolari, 2015). The new index has been updated and provides yearly scores for the period 1961-2018 for a total number of 104 countries, which have legislation on plant...
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Cet article propose une analyse de l’évolution et des déterminants des stratégies de dépôt de brevets et leur impact sur les systèmes de brevets. La motivation de cette recherche réside dans l’évolution des pratiques (rédaction et dépôt des demandes) au cours des 20 dernières...
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Many scholars have wrestled with what I call the “first-order question” in patent law: What policies should we adopt to promote innovation? This article grapples with the second-order question: What policies should we adopt to promote innovation about promoting innovation? I argue that...
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This paper examines the factors that cause differences in patent examination outcomes at the trilateral patent offices using a dataset of more than 70,000 non-PCT patent applications filed at the European and Japanese Patent Offices conditional upon them being granted by the United States Patent...
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This paper analyzes innovative activity in North America and European Union (EU) countries by means of the number of patents granted from 1965 to 2005. Making use of the database released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), we search for presence of a structural change patent...
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