Running to Stand Still? - Intellectual Property and Value Added in Innovating Firms.
We construct a unique panel dataset to examine how R&D; and intellectual property (IP), via patents and trade marks, increase firm productivity. Knowledge has public good characteristics of non-depletability and non-excludability. Even with IP, imitation and inventing around other firm'...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Working paper |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Department of Economics (University of Oxford)
2002
|