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Technology Transfer And Technology Policy In A Developing Country
Ray, Saon - In: Journal of Developing Areas 46 (2012) 2, pp. 371-396
The transfer of technology from developed to the developing countries plays an important role in meeting the technological needs of the latter. A strict patent regime adopted by a developing country encourages the transfer of the latest technology from the developed world. At the same time...
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Global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of business software piracy: benchmarking IPRs harmonization
Simplice, Simplice Anutechia Asongu; Antonio, Antonio … - Association of African Young Economists - AAYE - 2014
In this paper, we examine global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of software piracy to ease the benchmarking of …. The richness of the dataset allows us to disaggregate countries into fundamental characteristics of business software … main finding suggest that, a genuine timeframe for standardizing IPRs laws in the fight against software piracy is most …
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Boosting scientific publications in Africa: which IPRs protection channels matter?
Simplice, Simplice Anutechia Asongu - Association of African Young Economists - AAYE - 2014
This paper examines how Africa’s share in the contribution to global scientific knowledge can be boosted with existing Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) mechanisms. The findings which broadly indicate that tight IPRs are correlated with knowledge contribution can be summarized in two main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098419
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Democratizing intellectual property systems : how corruption hinders equal opportunities for firms
Paunov C. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This paper analyses how corruption affects firms ownership of intellectual property titles that relate to firms technological, organizational and further innovation efforts quality certificates and patents. Using firm-level data covering 48 developing and emerging countries, we show corruption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011100424
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Innovation on the seed market: the role of IPRs and commercialisation rules
Baudry, Marc; Hervouet, Adrien - Chaire d'Économie du Climat, Université … - 2014
This article deals with the impact of legislation in the seed sector on incentives for variety creation. The first category of rules consists in intellectual property rights and is intended to address a problem of sequential innovation and R&D investments. The second category concerns commercial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011106570
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An analysis of the ambiguous welfare effects of parallel trade freedom
Mueller-Langer, Frank - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The regulation of parallel trade has become a critical issue in the global trading system, as the welfare effects of parallel trade freedom are generally ambiguous. In this paper we investigate the welfare effects of parallel trade freedom for low, intermediate, and high trade costs and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107968
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Boosting scientific publications in Africa: which IPRs protection channels matter?
Asongu, Simplice A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper examines how Africa’s share in the contribution to global scientific knowledge can be boosted with existing Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) mechanisms. The findings which broadly indicate that tight IPRs are correlated with knowledge contribution can be summarized in two main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108237
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Intellectual Property and Biodiversity: When and Where are Property Rights important?
Swanson, Timothy; Sarr, Mare - Center for International Environmental Studies, The … - 2012
An important issue in the life sciences industries concerns the nature of the incentive mechanism that should govern the production of innovation within this R&D sector. We look at the specic problem of coordinating the supply of inputs across very different agents-North and South-that must each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011031480
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Trade and Intellectual Property Rights in the Agricultural Seed Sector
Eaton, Derek - Center for International Environmental Studies, The … - 2013
The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) has continued to be fiercely debated between North and South, par- ticularly with respect to its provisions for the agricultural sector. Article 27.3(b) of the TRIPS Agreement requires WTO member countries to offer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011031482
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Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Complexity and Multinational Firms
Yang, Zhenzeng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines theoretically the impact of host intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and complexity on MNEs' investment decision to the South in order to explain why large amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to low IPR protecting China and other emerging economies....
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