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Does patenting increase the private incentives to innovate? A microeconometric analysis

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  • E. DUGUET

    (Université de Bretagne Occidentale et EUREQua - CNRS UMR 8594 - Université de Paris I)

  • C. LELARGE

    (Insee)

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This paper examines whether patenting increases the private incentives to innovate in manufacturing. In order to study this issue, we build a model in which the value of an innovation depends both on the type of innovation implemented (product, process) and on the existence or not of a patent protection. We obtain a three-equation model that links the values of product and process innovations to the value of patent protection. This model and the feature of the data imply the estimation of a trivariate censored Probit model. We reach two main conclusions. First, the value of patent rights increases the incentives to innovate in products but not in processes and, conversely, the value of product innovations only and not the one of process innovations increases the incentives to patent. Second, we find that the distributions of product innovations and of patent values are skewed contrary to the values of process innovations. A significant share of the skewness in product values would come from the efficiency differences of intellectual property rights among the different activities.

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  • E. Duguet & C. Lelarge, 2004. "Does patenting increase the private incentives to innovate? A microeconometric analysis," Documents de Travail de l'Insee - INSEE Working Papers g2004-08, Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques.
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    JEL classification:

    • C15 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Statistical Simulation Methods: General
    • C35 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
    • L60 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - General
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital

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