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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 national incentives for patent protection? What is...
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innovation …
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After a decade of bruising legal battles, the courts and software industry norms largely resolved the costly war over the scope of copyright protection for computer software. By the mid 1990s, freedom to develop interoperable devices, systems, and software triumphed over broad copyright...
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most innovation and technology diffusion at the lowest cost. This Article seeks to support better analyses of, and decision … making regarding, the choices of government innovation-funding mechanisms by discussing the limits of current analyses and … government innovation-funding inputs and outputs; (2) better documentation of and self-conscious decision making regarding …
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world with two heterogeneous countries featuring different sizes and innovation capacities. Moving to an international …
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principal objectives of intellectual property law: promoting innovation and aesthetic creativity (focusing on patent and …
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This paper studies the intellectual property protection in a global setting where the protection is based on the patentability requirement. When two countries with similar research efficiencies open trade with each other, the world patentability requirement will rise above the autarky levels of...
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positions and reviews available empirical evidence. The relationships among IPRs, innovation, ITT and local adaptation are … to achieve significant gains in innovation and ITT unless they are accompanied by broader policy approaches, including …
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This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering … show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect of FDI on domestic innovation when the intellectual property … on why developing countries should encourage FDI and strengthen the IPR regime together to enhance domestic innovation …
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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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