Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Firm Performance - A Comparative Analysis for OECD Countries Based on Innovation Micro Data

Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Firm Performance - A Comparative Analysis for OECD Countries Based on Innovation Micro Data

Period: 01.08.2007 – 15.07.2009

The aim of the project was to carry out comparable surveys about firms’ innovation behaviour for a large number of OECD countries in and beyond Europe.The project focused on the following two questions:

  1. How does innovation activity affect productivity and employment growth? The analysis was based on the model from Crépon, Duguet und Mairesse (1998) which describes the relationship between innovation input, innovation output and productivity.
  2. How do different forms of legal protection (e.g. patents) influence innovation incentives?  The basis of the empirical analysis was the newly introduced model from Duguet and LeLarge (2006).

More detailed results can be found in the OECD studies mentioned below.

Project members

Bettina Peters

Bettina Peters

Project Coordinator
Deputy

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Georg Licht

Georg Licht

Research Associate

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Dirk Czarnitzki

Dirk Czarnitzki

Research Associate

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Cooperation partner
Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, BE // Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, FR // Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H., Graz, AT // National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP), Tokyo, JP // KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle, ETH Zürich, Zürich, CH // CREST Centre de Recherches en Economie et Statistique, Paris, FR // KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE // Bureau for Economic Theory and Applications (BETA), Strasbourg, FR // Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics, London, UK // Department of Trade and Industry, London, UK // Burgundy School of Business, Dijon, FR // Ministry of Economic Development, Wellington, NZ // Industry Canada, Government of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, CA // The Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, DK // NIFU STEP Studies in Innovation, Research and Education, Oslo, NO // Belgian Federal Science Policy, Brüssel, BE // Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Oslo, NO // STATEC, Luxemburg, LU // Ministry of Economics, Finance and Labour, Paris, FR // French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, Paris, FR // Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, BR // VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Helsinki, FI // United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Centre on Innovation and Technology (UNU-Merit), Maastricht, NL // Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation, Faculty of Business and Economics, Leuven, BE // Statistics Netherlands (CBS), Den Haag, NL // Statistics Finland, Helsinki, FI // Statistics Norway, Oslo, NO