The Empirical Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation: Puzzles and Clues

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  The American Economic Review

• Publication date

  2009-04-01

• Fields of study

  Law, Economics

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  DOI 10.1257/AER.99.2.343
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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