Patents and Cumulative Innovation: Causal Evidence from the Courts
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Cumulative innovation is central to economic growth. Do patent rights facilitate or impede follow-on innovation? We study the causal effect of removing patent rights by court invalidation on subsequent research related to the focal patent, as measured by later citations. We exploit random allocation
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美国国家经济研究局创建时间:
2014-07-01



