HYBRID INNOVATION IN MEIJI, JAPAN
Japan's hybrid innovation system during the Meiji era provides a useful laboratory for examining the effectiveness of complementary incentives to patents. Patents were introduced in 1885, and by 1911 1.2 million mostly nonpecuniary prizes were awarded at 8,503 competitions. Prizes provided a st...
| Veröffentlicht in: | International Economic Review. - Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association. - 54(2013), 2, Seite 575-600 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2013
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | International Economic Review |
| Schlagworte: | Law Social sciences Economics Applied sciences Business Behavioral sciences Biological sciences |
| Zusammenfassung: | Japan's hybrid innovation system during the Meiji era provides a useful laboratory for examining the effectiveness of complementary incentives to patents. Patents were introduced in 1885, and by 1911 1.2 million mostly nonpecuniary prizes were awarded at 8,503 competitions. Prizes provided a strong boost to patents, especially in less developed prefectures, and they also induced large spillovers of technical knowledge in prefectures adjacent to those with prizes, relative to distant control prefectures without prizes. Linking competition expenditures with the expected market value of patents induced by the prizes permits a cost–benefit assessment of the prize competitions to be made. |
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| ISSN: | 14682354 |