垂直相关产业的知识产权与创新

IF 1.5 4区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Economic Inquiry Pub Date : 2026-10-09 Epub Date: 2026-06-14 DOI:10.1111/ecin.70073

Michael A. Klein

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摘要

本文考察了知识产权在上下游企业互补垂直创新背景下的经济影响。经验模式表明，在企业挪用策略中，行业下游与专利相对于商业保密的相对重要性更大有关。利用一种新的内生增长模型，我证明了在大多数情况下，加强专利保护会产生偏向下游的技术变革。相应的资源再配置产生了现有分析没有考虑到的专利政策的分配效应。我研究了这些效应对经济增长、福利和最优专利政策的影响。

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Intellectual property rights and innovation in vertically related industries

This paper examines the economic impact of intellectual property rights in the context of complementary vertical innovation by firms in upstream and downstream industries. Empirical patterns suggest that industry downstreamness is associated with a greater relative importance of patents versus trade secrecy in firm appropriation strategies. Using a novel model of endogenous growth, I show that strengthening patent protection generates downstream-biased technical change in most cases. The corresponding reallocation of resources creates distributional effects from patent policy that existing analysis do not account for. I examine the impact of these effects on economic growth, welfare, and optimal patent policy.

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Economic Inquiry ECONOMICS-

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3.80

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5.60%

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