decision itself. This paper discusses the likely impact of these patents on innovation. It first reviews the facts about … system and innovation. It concludes by finding some consensus in the literature about the problems associated with this …

about the relationship between the patent system and innovation, in order to draw some tentative conclusions about their …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of … product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation …

What do we know about the relationship between innovation and productivity among firms? The workhorse model of this … innovation are derived. The recent empirical evidence on the relationship between innovation and productivity in firms is then … surveyed. The conclusion is that there are substantial positive impacts of product innovation on revenue productivity, but that …

innovation and international technology transfer in general.  The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous.  We then … externalities, implies that IP may not be the ideal and cannot be the only policy instrument to encourage innovation in this area …

include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs of innovation and productivity. We find that R&D and ICT are both … strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for innovation and ICT for productivity. We … explore their possible complementarity in innovation and production but find none, although there is complementarity between R …

evidence on patents as incentives for innovation, the effectiveness of patents for invention disclosure, patent valuation, and …

decision itself. This paper discusses the likely impact of these patents on innovation. It first reviews the facts about … system and innovation. It concludes by finding some consensus in the literature about the problems associated with this …