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Effects of a blocking patent on R&D with endogenous survival activities

Sumiko Niwa ()
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Sumiko Niwa: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Journal of Economics, 2018, vol. 125, issue 3, No 3, 263-277

Abstract: Abstract This study analyzes the effect of strengthening patent protection for innovation and economic growth by introducing a blocking patent into the endogenous growth model developed by Furukawa (Econ Lett 121(1):26–29, 2013a), which features survival activity of patent holders in the R&D sector with a variety-expansion model. Results show that strengthening patent protection can raise the economic growth rate and social welfare through an endogenous survival investment. Additionally, this study examines the effects of increasing subsidies for R&D. We find that increasing R&D subsidy rate can negatively affect economic growth and social welfare because of the investment for survival activities. This result shows the novel role of a blocking patent in determining innovation effects of R&D subsidies. Furthermore, we analyze the effect of patent breadth which is another patent instrument in this model on innovation and economic growth. Results show that the growth and welfare effects of the profit-division rule and the subsidy rate for R&D may vary with the size of patent breadth.

Keywords: Intellectual property rights; Blocking patents; Endogenous growth; Firm survival (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s00712-018-0617-1

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