ROLE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN FINANCIAL SERVICES

Financial Development , Intellectual Property Rights , and Growth

This paper explores the interaction between long run economic growth, financial development, and intellectual property rights through a general equilibrium, over-lapping generation, infinite horizon, endogenous R&D model with heterogeneous agents. I find that a reduced collateral constraint leads to both an ability to engage more heavily in research and a reduced incentive to engage in research...

the role of intellectual property rights in finished cost reduction of goods and services

recently, the finished cost reduction policy-as an efficient economic policy for competitiveness of domestic products beside foreign competitors-has been paying attention by ministry of commerce of iran. at the fist look, the protection of intellectual property such as inventions increases the finished cost of products; but intellectual property protection can be effective in finished cost redu...

Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights

We study the determinants of patent suits and their outcomes over the period 1978-1999 by linking detailed information from the U.S. patent office, the federal court system, and industry sources. The probability of being involved in a suit is very heterogeneous, being much higher for valuable patents and for patents owned by individuals and smaller firms. Thus the patent system generates incent...

Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual Property Rights (ipr)

Thorough tests were conducted on video watermarking systems in 2000 [3]. Audio watermarking tests followed and have recently been completed. The process was lengthy, starting in June 2001 and finishing in July 2003. In summary, a list of technical requirements was made ... Calls For Systems were issued ... systems were received ... and then they were tested. Several members of EBU Project Group...