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regional markets through the reduction of barriers to trade, investment, and technology flows. In this world, knowledge … growth. This situation takes on political importance because the international mobility of capital and technology have risen …-competitive business environment that matters overall for FDI. This analysis points out that, in theory, investment and technology transfer …
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The proliferation of investment and intellectual property (IP) agreements recently has been accompanied by an increasing number and expanded scope of investment disputes. The agreements give rise to various issues that particularly affect developing countries. One of the issues that has recently...
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engages in FDI, its technology is imitated, and a Southern firm enters the market that may sell in both markets. The Northern …
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engages in FDI, its technology is imitated, and a Southern firm enters the market that may sell in both markets. The Northern …
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This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering the pharmaceutical industries across 29 provinces in the People's Republic of China (PRC) over the period 1998-2007. We show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect...
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This paper investigates the role of patent protection in the global investment decisions of multinational firms. Using comprehensive firm-level panel data of German multinationals, we investigate how changes in a host country’s patent protection influence the extensive and intensive margin of...
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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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. International Business takes many forms, viz. Technology Licensing, Franchising, Joint Ventures, Contract Manufacturing apart from … plank of technology. But studies on the role of Intellectual Capital, acting as a ‘proactive' agent of International …
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This paper aims to empirically examine how intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection, foreign direct investment (FDI) and research and development (R&D), along with other possible variables, may affect the economic growth of the host country. By using the panel data of 92 countries during...
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This paper aims at overcoming several shortcomings of previous empirical studies on the relationship between IPR protection and FDI. First, FDI is analyzed on a sectorally and regionally disaggregated level. Second, we address the proposition that stronger IPR protection raises not only the...
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