Optimal patent policy, research joint ventures, and growth

Yibai Yang

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 118, issue 2, 381-384

Abstract: The patent-and-growth studies have found that there may be welfare loss without optimizing both patent breadth and the division of profit in competitive research joint ventures (NJs). This paper examines the effects of patent policy on an R&D-based growth model where innovations are produced by cooperative research joint ventures (CJs). We show that CJs always generate a higher equilibrium growth rate than NJs, and the social optimum can be achieved with CJs in equilibrium when only patent breadth is chosen optimally.

Keywords: Economic growth; Patent instruments; Research joint ventures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 O34 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.12.001

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