Dosi, Giovanni; Marengo, Luigi; Pasquali, Corrado - 2006
and in particular of Intellectual Property Right (IPR) as incentives for technological innovation. We start with a …-market institutions in the innovation process. Next, we examine the recent changes in the IPR regimes and their influence upon both rates … of patenting and underlying rates of innovation. The evidence broadly suggests that, first, IPRs are not the most …