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Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protect firms from imitation and are considered crucial to promote innovation and technological diffusion. This paper examines the impact of IPR on import sourcing decisions of multinationals. We consider a framework in which firms offshore production of an...
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Developing Asian countries are strengthening their intellectual property rights (IPR) regime as they themselves become producers of intellectual property. At the same time, developing Asia has attracted large amounts of foreign direct investment (FDI) and this trend is expected to continue in...
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technology-intensive sectors that rely heavily on IPRs. Weak IPR protection also encourages investors to undertake non …
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's decision between serving a market via greenfield foreign direct investment to avoid the exposure of its technology or entering …, whereas policies to limit foreign ownership in a JV gain importance in technology intensive industries as complementary …
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deters foreign investors in technology-intensive sectors that rely heavily on intellectual property rights. Moreover, the …
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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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Intellectual property protection affects the manner in which multinational enterprises facilitate technology transfer … property protection affect the level and the composition of technology transfer, depending on the value of the firm …
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concentrates in countries with a high innovative (imitative) ability and technology-intensive industries. Firm-level logistic … PRP ameliorates investors' concern about the spillover of proprietary technology …
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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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developing countries (South) through its impact on innovation, market structure and technology transfer. In a North-South trade … can protect their technology by exporting or risk spillovers by undertaking FDI to avoid tariffs. A stringent IPR regime … is always optimal for the South as it triggers technology transfer by inducing FDI in less R&D-intensive industries and …
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