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Policy Space in Intellectual Property Rights and Technology Transfer: A New Economic Research Agenda

verfasst von : Keith E. Maskus

Erschienen in: Intellectual Property and Development: Understanding the Interfaces

Verlag: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

My purpose in writing this chapter is to pose a number of questions that have not been satisfactorily addressed, if at all, by economists working in the area of intellectual property rights (IPRs), trade, foreign direct investment, and technology diffusion. There is always a basic tradeoff between fundamental gains and losses from protecting IPRs, or rather reforming them in a manner that offers more certainty and exclusivity to rights holders. On the one hand, such reforms may be expected to improve the functioning of formal markets in which technologies are traded across borders, at least in recipient emerging countries with supportive economic and policy frameworks. On the other hand, those reforms raise the costs of technology imitation by local firms and impose administrative burdens on domestic authorities. They may also limit the policy flexibility those authorities have to regulate the use of exclusive rights and encourage broad adoption and diffusion of incoming technical knowledge. In this chapter I offer some thoughts on these questions, with a particular emphasis on policy issues surrounding international technology transfer and IPRs. In the second section I discuss available evidence on how patent reforms seem to affect flows of technology through formal markets. Following that is a review of various policy flexibilities that matter in this context, considering the limited evidence about how well they work. In the last substantive section I address some of the broader policy questions that affect technology diffusion, most of which have not been studied systematically by empirical economists. In that context, the section sets out an agenda for economic research that would focus on understanding how broader policies and conditions could improve access to global technologies, even in the presence of IPRs reforms. That analysis is partly speculative, attempting to envision how to peel back the veil of ignorance covering key issues in this area of inquiry.

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Fußnoten
1
Odagiri et al. (2010).
 
2
Keller (2004), Hoekman et al. (2005).
 
3
Markusen (2002).
 
4
Hovhanissyan and Keller (2015).
 
5
Blalock and Gertler (2008), Keller (2010).
 
6
Yang and Maskus (2001), Markusen (2001), Hoekman et al. (2005).
 
7
Arora et al. (2001), Maskus (2012a, b).
 
8
The definition of “excessive” scope has long been a contentious issue in innovation economics, even within countries. It is yet more complicated in the international arena. Grossman and Lai (2004), Scotchmer (2004).
 
9
Keller (2010).
 
10
Hoekman et al. (2005), Branstetter et al. (2011).
 
11
Aitken and Harrison (1999).
 
12
Eaton and Kortum (1996).
 
13
Hu and Jaffe (2003).
 
14
Hu (2009).
 
15
Ivus (2010).
 
16
Maskus and Yang (2018).
 
17
Nunnenkamp and Spatz (2004).
 
18
Javorcik (2004).
 
19
Du et al. (2008).
 
20
Branstetter et al. (2006).
 
21
Branstetter et al. (2011).
 
22
Lai et al. (2017).
 
23
Odagiri et al. (2010).
 
24
Goeschl and Swanson (2000).
 
25
Qian (2008).
 
26
Hoekman et al. (2005), Maskus and Saggi (2014) offer full discussions.
 
27
Hausmann and Rodrik (2003), Foray (2012).
 
28
Correa (1999), Maskus and Reichman (2004), Maskus (2012a).
 
29
Maskus (2012b).
 
30
Maskus and Okediji (2010).
 
31
Palangkaraya et al. (2017).
 
32
Xue and Liang (2010), Suttmeier and Yao (2011).
 
33
Maskus (2012a).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Policy Space in Intellectual Property Rights and Technology Transfer: A New Economic Research Agenda
verfasst von
Keith E. Maskus
Copyright-Jahr
2019
Verlag
Springer Singapore
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2856-5_1