Patent Protection As A Stimulant for Risky Innovation. Could TRIPS be Counterproductive?
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Intellectual property; sequential innovation; tournaments.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- K0 - Law and Economics - - General
- O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2004-12-12 (Africa)
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