Strong Patenting, Weak R&D

Strong Patenting, Weak R&D

When too much easy patenting hurts R&D investment decisions: a cross-country analysis

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This study contributes to the addressing of thePatent-R&D relationship from a new perspective, analyzinga crucial yet ignored question: Can more patents have anegative effect on R&D investment? Offering an extensivesynthesizes of existing theoretical and empirical literature,we focus on the arguments that might sustain a negativeimpact of patents over R&D. The Patent system seems tohave created an incentive to massive patenting with noperceivable significant(maybe even negative as our resultsshow) impact on R&D and as for certain introduced a setof costs that may actually lower the optimal R&D...