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Despite the emphasis of international IP treaties, such as the TRIPS Agreement, on common minimum IP standards, considerable diversity exists among developing countries regarding the nature and scope of IP standards, approaches to administration and enforcement, and the responsiveness of...
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The success of the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Development Agenda will depend upon reforms to the agency's governance. At the 2007 WIPO General Assemblies, several of the recommendations on the Development Agenda adopted by member states specifically alluded to the need for...
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own innovation. The analysis predicts that the willingness to enforce IPR is U-shaped in a country GDP: small … enforcement of IPR yields a higher level of innovation and global welfare only if the developing country does not innovate. A …
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Incentivizing innovation through buyouts may alleviate the social costs associated with patent power, but the political … setting of countries with different innovation and financing capabilities, and where financing governments rely on taxes to …
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world with two heterogeneous countries featuring different sizes and innovation capacities. Moving to an international …
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The impact of parallel trade on innovation in R&D-intensive industries, such as pharmaceuticals, is a hotly debated … question in antitrust and IP policy. The well known argument that parallel trade dampens innovation by undermining firms …, parallel trade increases innovation by reducing governments' incentives to set particularly low price caps. In this paper, we …
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vested in the components of a scalable quantum computer? Are there sufficient market-set innovation incentives for the … the benefits of this cutting edge technology? Without hindering sustainable innovation, including the apportionment of … rights, responsibilities and duties of care? What are the effects of standardization and certification on innovation …
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This is a revision and update of "Intellectual Property Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements" by Valdés and Runyowa (2012). This paper adjusts the methodology applied to assess the intellectual property (IP) provisions contained in regional trade agreements (RTAs) and the aggregation of such...
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This paper proposes a search strategy for photovoltaic patents which allows to distinguish the photovoltaic system into sub-trajectories. Identifying and analyzing sub-trajectories is of particular importance for understanding micro patterns of technological change. The proposed search strategy...
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This paper studies cross-border intellectual property rights (IPR) as a North-South contract using a Nash bargaining approach and distinguishes between the outcome and its actual enforcement. The absorptive capacity of the Southern country to exploit technology transfer plays a key role in the...
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