Does stronger protection of intellectual property stimulate innovation?

Kausik Gangopadhyay and Debasis Mondal

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 116, issue 1, 80-82

Abstract: This work incorporates the idea that the protection of intellectual property rights may hinder the free flow of scientific knowledge from innovations in a standard endogenous growth model and finds that stronger protection of intellectual property rights may discourage innovation.

Keywords: Intellectual property rights; Endogenous growth; Innovation; Knowledge spillover (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 O34 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.01.006

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