How do foreign firms patent in emerging economies with weak appropriability regimes? Archetypes and motives

Research Policy

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1422-1439

  Keupp, Marcus Matthias ^a   Friesike, Sascha ^a   Von Zedtwitz, Maximilian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Appropriability regime; Appropriation; China; Emerging economy; Intellectual property; Patent

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIABILITY; APPROPRIATION; CHINA; EMERGING ECONOMIES; PATENT;

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84865228794     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2012.03.019     Document Type: Article

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