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Does Patenting Increase the Private Incentives To Innovate? A Microeconometric Analysis
The paper examines whether patenting increases the private incentives to innovate in manufacturing. To study this issue, the authors build a model in which the value of an innovation depends both on the type of innovation implemented (product, process) and on the existence of a patent protection or not.
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http://econwpa.wustl.edu:80/eps/dev/papers/0411/0411019.pdf