In a world where poor countries provide weak protection for intellectual property rights, market integration shifts technical change in favor of rich nations. Through this channel, free trade may amplify international income differences. At the same time, integration with countries where...

The issue of optimal patent protection is of great importance since the inclusion of the trade related aspects of intellectual property rights accord into the purview of the World Trade Organization. Hitherto, the literature has focused on the optimal patent regimes from the perspective of...

In this paper we show that standard conclusions of the dynamic literature on intellectual property rights (IPR) protection are not robust to incorporating reasonable features of the economic environment. We construct a bi-dimensional model of dynamic endogenous product innovation and...

This paper analyzes welfare implications of protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) in the framework of TRIPS for developing countries (South) through its impact on innovation, market structure and technology transfer. In a North-South trade environment, the South sets its IPR policy...

The study is to develop an extended North-South model to analyze the IPR conflict and possible policy implications for the pharmaceutical industry. In this proposed theoretical and empirical work, innovation from the North, followed by imitation in the South (India and Bangladesh), and Foreign...

This paper examines how stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection in the south affects the processes of R&D investment, technology transfer and skill accumulation. It finds that stronger IPR protection has only a temporary impact on the innovation rate while it has a negative impact...