Questions tagged [intellectual-property]
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Are there any examples of companies prioritizing market dominance or intellectual property ownership over long-term profitability?
I want to know if market dominance (total share of a market's profits) is more important than long-term profitability because psychologists believe that humans and other animals have a social ...
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What factors influence whether an invention is not patented?
Various inventions that have become well-known were never patented, including matches, emoticons, and the magnetic strip. Other noteworthy examples include the polio vaccine (Jonas Salk), monoclonal ...
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Are there any studies, academic papers or articles that defy "common" knowledge", i.e that patents give an incentive for R&D to private business?
In Economic Growth and particularly dynamic optimization. My professor taught us that an intertemporal allocation is a dynamic optimum(Pareto Optimum) only if(necessary condition) at any given ...
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Updated International patent protection index from Park (2008)
Park (2008) provides an international patent protection index between the years of 1960-2005 with 5 years intervals. I was wondering if an updated version of such an index exist?
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What would be the practicality of a widespread open-source approach in an economy?
I'm not sure how to tag this so feel free to add any tags you see as relevant.
The question here is about anything that uses a proprietary approach today and applying open-sourcing to it.
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get statistics about the research intensity of an industry
I want to know how much research is conducted in an industry in order to be able to say Industry X is more research intense than Industry Y.
For industry categorization I use the NACE classificiation....
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Want to read more about medical intellectual property and the TPP
I'm trying to find information about the current state of medical IP protection in countries willing to sign the TPP and the change they will go trough and maybe some impact analysis.
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Evidence that open source production processes increase efficiency and/or consumer surplus?
Is there peer reviewed evidence that open source production processes increase efficiency and/or consumer surplus? It seems that the first theorem of welfare economics requires complete markets which ...
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Intellectual property as a retarder of innovation
I am aware of some work such as
O'Donoghue (1998): "A Patentability Requirement for Sequential
Innovation", RAND Journal of Economics
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Hunt (1999): "Nonobviousness and the incentive to ...
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What are the economic benefits of SLAPP in file sharing/piracy?
Spin-off from Piracy/File sharing - Why aren't songs, movies or ebooks given for free (+ads) like TV?
What are the economic benefits of SLAPP in or out of file sharing/piracy?
There's a comment in ...
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