TY - JOUR
T1 - Differences and similarities between patents, registered designs and copyrights
T2 - Empirical evidence from the netherlands
AU - Mol, Mischa C.
AU - Masurel, Enno
PY - 2012/10
Y1 - 2012/10
N2 - Most of the literature on intellectual property protection focuses on patenting and neglects alternatives, such as registered designs and copyrights. The literature that includes these alternatives generally treats them as nominal alternatives, and ignores the fact that copyrights are cheaper and easier to obtain than patents or registered designs, which would make it more sensible to treat them as ordinal. However, this ordinal behaviour could not be confirmed on the Dutch 2006 Community Innovation Survey dataset. Treating our protection variable as multinomial confirmed the influences on patenting found in the literature, but showed registered designs and copyrights to behave differently.
AB - Most of the literature on intellectual property protection focuses on patenting and neglects alternatives, such as registered designs and copyrights. The literature that includes these alternatives generally treats them as nominal alternatives, and ignores the fact that copyrights are cheaper and easier to obtain than patents or registered designs, which would make it more sensible to treat them as ordinal. However, this ordinal behaviour could not be confirmed on the Dutch 2006 Community Innovation Survey dataset. Treating our protection variable as multinomial confirmed the influences on patenting found in the literature, but showed registered designs and copyrights to behave differently.
KW - copyrights
KW - Innovation
KW - patents
KW - registered designs
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U2 - 10.1142/S1363919612003848
DO - 10.1142/S1363919612003848
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84870518928
SN - 1363-9196
VL - 16
JO - International Journal of Innovation Management
JF - International Journal of Innovation Management
IS - 5
M1 - 1250026
ER -