Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/155153 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 100. 2000
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper explores the various policies implemented in Italy to foster innovative activities and to regulate the technological effects on market competition and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Research promotion has primarily taken the form of facilitated credits and grants to stimulate R&D and to speed up the diffusion of technological knowledge. The analysis of governmental instruments used for the promotion of R&D cooperation shows that a specific and coherent strategy to sustain Research Joint Ventures (RJVs) does not exist yet in Italy. However, in the last decade Italian firms and research centers/universities have been actively involved in the programs financed by the European Commission. Italian Antitrust Policies and Intellectual Property Rights mainly derive from European legislation. The analysis proposed shows that there are no specific features discouraging or encouraging the creation and the performance of RJVs.
Subjects: 
R&D policy
R&D cooperation
intellectual property rights
patent system
antitrust policy
Italy
JEL: 
L4
L5
O34
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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