Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Exploiting Intellectual Property to Promote Innovation and Create Value |
Publisher | World Scientific Publishing Co. |
Chapter | 5 |
Pages | 101-116 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781786343512 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781786343505 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2017 |
Keywords
- Copyrights
- Innovation
- Patents
- Registered designs