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Running to Stand Still? - Intellectual Property and Value Added in Innovating Firms

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  • Christine Greenhalgh
  • Mark Longland
  • Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre

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We construct a unique panel dataset to examine how R&D and intellectual property (IP), via patents and trade marks, increase firm productivity. Knowledge has public good characteristics of non-depletability and non-excludability. Even with IP, imitation and inventing around other firm`s products is possible, so we examine the size and duration of benefits to IP protection. If non-depletion is correct, this implies that absolute R&D, or total IP assets are important. We examine this hypothesis against the alternative of depletability, where innovative intensity relative to the size of the firm matters. The results support rapid depletability and poor ability to exclude.

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  • Christine Greenhalgh & Mark Longland & Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, 2002. "Running to Stand Still? - Intellectual Property and Value Added in Innovating Firms," Economics Series Working Papers 134, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
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    Keywords

    intellectual property; R&D; value added; manufacturing;
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    JEL classification:

    • L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
    • L60 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - General
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • 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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