This chapter surveys the literature on international trade and the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in … the global economy. The discussion is organized around the major questions in the field. How does openness to trade affect … support the major arguments for and against the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS …

in the South. Strengthening patent protection increases the South's welfare by enhancing innovation and FDI, but it also …

We present a class of dynamic general-equilibrium models of education, innovation and technology transfer to explain …. Innovation and human-capital accumulation appear as in-line engines of scale-invariant endogenous growth. Industries evolve … according to stochastic processes of innovation, imitation and technology adaption in the global economy. …

liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …

This study develops an R&D-based growth model with vertical and horizontal innovation to shed some light on the current … debate on whether patent protection stimulates or stifles innovation. We analyze the effects of patent protection in the form … of blocking patents. We show that patent protection changes the direction of innovation by having asymmetric effects on …

This study analyzes how patent protection affects innovation in an R&D-based growth model with elastic labor supply. We … find that increasing patent breadth may generate an inverted-U effect on innovation depending on whether the model features … the knowledge-driven or lab-equipment innovation process. This result highlights an important interaction between elastic …

Innovation in agriculture differs from innovation elsewhere in the economy in several important ways. In this chapter … agricultural technologies and the implications for spatial spillovers and the demand for adaptive research, and (c) the role of … mean that the nature and extent of market failures in the provision of agricultural research and innovation differ from …

international technology diffusion, trade, cross-country productivity differences, financial development and fluctuations. In many … such applications, a key role is played by complementarities in the process of innovation. …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … surveys such as the “innovation survey” of firms and the inventor survey. They have deepened our understanding of the …