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Who Develops Innovations in Medicine for the Poor? Trends in Patent Applications Related to Medicines for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Neglected Diseases

Ito, Banri; Yamagata, Tatsufumi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2005

Who invents medicines for the poor of the world? This question becomes very important where the WTO allows low income countries to be unbound by the TRIPS agreement. This agreement concerns medicines for infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. These diseases cause serious...

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FDI inflows and outflows, intellectual property rights, and productivity growth

Sasatra, Sudsawasd; Santi, Chaisrisawatsuk - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

Using panel data of 57 countries during the period of 1995-2012, this study investigates the impact of intellectual property rights (IPR) processes on productivity growth. The IPR processes are decomposed into three stages, innovation process, commercialization process, and IPR protection...

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Indian Patent Policy and Publich Health : implications from the Japanese Experience

Aoki, Reiko; Kubo, Kensuke; Yamane, Hiroko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006

The introduction of pharmaceutical product patents in India and other developing countries is expected to have a … experience of Japan when it introduced product patents in 1976. In Japan, narrow patents and promotion of cross-licensing were … contrast to the Japanese patent policy which relied on narrow patents and extensive licensing. R&D by local firms and the …

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Linked versus Non-linked Firms in Innovation: The Effects of Economies of Network in Agglomeration in East Asia

Machikita, Tomohiro; Ueki, Yasushi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009

This paper proposes a new mechanism linking innovation and network in developing economies to detect explicit production and information linkages and investigates the testable implications of these linkages using survey data gathered from manufacturing firms in East Asia. We found that firms...

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Innovation networks in China, Japan, and Korea : evidence from Japanese patent data

Kuroiwa, Ikuo; Nabeshima, Kaoru; Tanaka, Kiyoyasu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

The growing importance of innovation in economic growth has encouraged the development of innovation capabilities in East Asia, within which China, Japan, and Korea are most important in terms of technological capabilities. Using Japanese patent data, we examine how knowledge networks have...

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Innovation networks in China, Japan, and Korea : further evidence from U.S. patent data

Nabeshima, Kaoru; Tanaka, Kiyoyasu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

The growing importance of innovation in economic growth has encouraged the development of innovation capabilities in East Asia, within which China, Japan, and Korea are most important in terms of technological capabilities. Using U.S. patent data, we examine how knowledge networks have developed...

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Technology network for machine tools in Vietnam

Mizuno, Junko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

When Vietnam joined the WTO, it accepted foreign direct investment and started to grow. Technically, it was then greatly influenced by the enterprises that entered the country through direct investment. This report shows that the technology network for machine tools is formed via direct...

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Theory and empirics of Markusen type multinationals

Uchida, Yoko; Oyamada, Kazuhiko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

to be strongly related to the production patterns of MNEs. In this paper, we introduce a model to explicitly treat …

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Is FTA/EPA effective for a developing country to attract FDI? : simulation analysis based on an extended knowledge-capital model

Oyamada, Kazuhiko; Uchida, Yoko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

To prepare an answer to the question of how a developing country can attract FDI, this paper explored the factors and policies that may help bring FDI into a developing country by utilizing an extended version of the knowledge-capital model. With a special focus on the effects of FTAs/EPAs...

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Export platform FDI and firm heterogeneity

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Tanaka, Kiyoyasu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

This paper investigates theoretically and empirically firms' productivity ranking among traditional horizontal foreign direct investment (HFDI), pure platform FDI (PFDI), and complex platform FDI (CFDI). Using data on Japanese outward FDI, we define firms conducting HFDI or PFDI as those...

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