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on Intellectual Property Rights |
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Issue of 2020‒11‒16
four papers chosen by Giovanni Ramello Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro” |
| By: | Clement Bonnet (EconomiX - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CEC - Chaire Economie du Climat - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres) |
| Abstract: | The invention and the diffusion of environmental process of production and consumption goods are impeded by two market failures: the first on environment and the second on knowledge. The question arises whether the instruments aiming at correcting these market failures should be jointly designed or not. We investigate this question for a major instrument of support to innovation: the patent system. We demonstrate that a patent system and a discriminating environmental taxation that are jointly defined provide for a greater efficiency. We conclude that the two externalities interact with each other through the patent system. |
| Keywords: | environmental innovation,double externality,patent policy |
| Date: | 2020–10–19 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-02971676&r=all |
| By: | Link, Albert (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Economics); van Hasselt, Martijn (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Economics) |
| Abstract: | Technology-based firms use intellectual property protection mechanisms (IPPMs) to appropriate the returns to their research investments. The empirical literature has generally focused on the use of IPPMs by private sector firms to appropriate the returns to their privately financed R&D-based technologies. To date, studies have not considered the use of IPPMs by private sector firms whose research is publicly financed. We identify empirically a number of significant covariates with the use of a portfolio of formal IPPMs consisting of patents, copyrights, and trademarks. However, our multivariate empirical analyses show that caution is needed in generalizing about such covariates when discussing any one particular formal IPPM. |
| Keywords: | Patents; Copyrights; Trademarks; Intellectual property; SBIR program; Program evaluation; Technology; |
| JEL: | O34 O38 |
| Date: | 2020–10–30 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ris:uncgec:2020_009&r=all |
| By: | Montinaro, Marta; Pal, Rupayan; Scrimitore, Marcella |
| Abstract: | In a context of product innovation, we study two-part tariff licensing between a patentee and a potential rival which compete in a differentiated product market characterized by network externalities. The latter are shown to crucially affect the relative profitability of Cournot vs. Bertrand when a per unit royalty is applied. By contrast, we find that Cournot yields higher profits than Bertrand under ad valorem royalties, regardless of the strength of network effects. |
| Keywords: | Production Economics |
| Date: | 2020–11–05 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:feemff:307305&r=all |
| By: | Clement Bonnet (EconomiX - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Chaire économie du climat - Chaire économie du climat) |
| Date: | 2020–10–19 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-02971680&r=all |