The protection of intellectual property rights and endogenous growth: Is stronger always better?

Y Furukawa - Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper uses a variety expansion model of endogenous growth to examine the effect of
intellectual property rights (IPR) protection on economic growth in a closed economy. Most …

Economic growth with imperfect protection of intellectual property rights

R Horii, T Iwaisako - Journal of Economics, 2007 - Springer
This paper examines the growth effects of intellectual property right (IPR) protection in a
quality-ladder model of endogenous growth. Stronger IPR protection, which reduces the …

Patent protection, capital accumulation, and economic growth

T Iwaisako, K Futagami - Economic Theory, 2013 - Springer
In this paper, we investigate how strengthening patent protection affects economic growth in
an endogenous growth model where both innovation and capital accumulation are the …

Patent policy and economic growth: A survey

AC Chu - The Manchester School, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This survey provides a selective review of the literature on patent policy, innovation and
economic growth. The patent system is a useful policy tool for stimulating innovation given …

Optimal timing of climate change policy: Interaction between carbon taxes and innovation externalities

R Gerlagh, S Kverndokk, KE Rosendahl - Environmental and resource …, 2009 - Springer
This paper addresses the impact of endogenous technology through research and
development (R&D) on the timing of climate change policy. We develop a model with a stock …

Dynamic analysis of patent policy in an endogenous growth model

K Futagami, T Iwaisako - Journal of Economic Theory, 2007 - Elsevier
In this paper, we explore the dynamic properties of an endogenous growth model with finite
patent length. We show that there exists a unique equilibrium growth path and that this path …

Patents, knowledge spillovers, and entrepreneurship

ZJ Acs, M Sanders - Small business economics, 2012 - Springer
We develop an endogenous-growth model in which we distinguish between inventors and
innovators. This distinction implies that stronger protection of intellectual property rights has …

Estimating the GDP effect of Open Source Software and its complementarities with R&D and patents: evidence and policy implications

K Blind, T Schubert - The Journal of Technology Transfer, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Open Source Software (OSS) has become an increasingly important knowledge
asset in modern economies. However, the economic impact of OSS on countries' GDP is …

Does intellectual monopoly stimulate or stifle innovation?

AC Chu, G Cozzi, S Galli - European Economic Review, 2012 - Elsevier
This study develops an R&D-based growth model with vertical and horizontal innovation to
shed some light on the current debate on whether patent protection stimulates or stifles …

Stage-dependent intellectual property rights

AC Chu, G Cozzi, S Galli - Journal of Development Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
Inspired by the Chinese experience, we develop a Schumpeterian growth model of distance
to frontier in which economic growth in the developing country is driven by domestic …