Intellectual Property Rights Policy, Competition and Innovation

To what extent and in what form should the intellectual property rights (IPR) of innovators be protected? Should a company with a large technology lead over its rivals receive the same IPR protection as a company with a more limited advantage? In this paper, we develop a dynamic framework for the st...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron, Akcigit, Ufuk
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Wiley Blackwell 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72048
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-7491