Intellectual property protection and innovation: An inverted-U relationship

Economics Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 99-101

  Furukawa, Yuichi ^a  

^a CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Growth; Learning; Patent; R D; Scale effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957160680     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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