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Technology Protectionism and the Patent System: Evidence from China
Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri
Governments have strong incentives to allow their inventors to free ride on foreign technologies. They can achieve this result by discriminating against foreigners in the patent system-by refusing to grant foreigners a patent for their inventions. Internat ...
WILEY2022Discrimination against foreigners in the U.S. patent system
Inventions of foreign origin are about ten percentage points less likely to be granted a U.S. patent than domestic inventions. An empirical analysis of 1.5 million U.S. patent applications identifies three systematic differences between foreign and domesti ...
2020Do firms face a trade-off between the quantity and the quality of their inventions?
This paper presents evidence that firms face a trade-off between the quantity and the quality of their research output. The econometric analysis uses survey data on patent applicants at the European Patent Office and addresses the identification problem ca ...
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