Do Patents Matter for Commercialization?

Commercialization, Renewal and Quality of Patents

One of the major reasons why inventors are awarded patents by governments is they encourage R&D investments and commercialization of inventions. If the patent holder commercializes his invention, he has stronger incentives to retain the patent. The purpose here is to empirically analyze the relationship between commercialization and the renewal of patents. At the same time, I take into account ...

Do Workers\' Remittances Matter for the Egyptian Economy?

Workers’ remittances constitute one of the most important sources of external finance for many developing countries. Although it shows a decreasing trend in recent years, Egypt after 1970s with her regular and massive labor migration to abroad has been still one of the gainer countries on remittances across the world. Empirical studies that implemented for various countries reveal workers’ ...

Do patents work for public health?

Q: Why did the CIPIH fail to deliver its report on time in 2005? A: The CIPIH had to deal with a very difficult issue: how to promote the development of medicines for diseases prevailing in developing countries. These diseases are neglected in industry’s R&D (research and development) budgets because selling medicines to treat them is not profitable enough. The CIPIH chose to cover issues rangi...

Do Patents Perform like Property ?

Do patents provide critical incentives to encourage investment in innovation? Or, instead, do patents impose legal risks and burdens on innovators that discourage innovation, as some critics now claim? This paper reviews empirical economic evidence on how well patents perform as a property system. Do Patents Perform Like Property? 1

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