Do stronger patents induce more innovation?
Subtitle: evidence from the 1998 Japanese patent law reforms
By: Mariko Sakakibara, Lee Branstetter.
Contributors: Branstetter, Lee.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 7066; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 7066.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 57
Subjects: Patent laws and legislation -- Japan.; Technological innovations -- Japan.; Research, Industrial -- Japan.
Notes: "April 1999."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-57).

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