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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

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

  • Josh Lerner
American Economic Review
vol. 99, no. 2, May 2009
(pp. 343–48)
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Citation

Lerner, Josh. 2009. "The Empirical Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation: Puzzles and Clues." American Economic Review, 99 (2): 343–48. DOI: 10.1257/aer.99.2.343

JEL Classification

  • K11 Property Law
  • O31 Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
  • O34 Intellectual Property Rights