Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 539 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781849505390
Series Statement:
Frontiers of economics and globalization v. 2
Content:
Areas covered include information technology, trade, investment, agriculture, medicine, firm behavior, and development
Content:
Indeed, it is ironic that during a time of significant global liberalization of trade and investment barriers, the IPR system may be raising restrictions on access to the very technology flows that could substantiate the gains from greater trading opportunities.However, expansion of the global IPR regime also bears potential for economic gains. It is possible that the new system will encourage additional investments in R&D and innovation. The ongoing internationalization of commercial R&D could be accelerated. Such investments might increasingly meet the medical, agricultural, and educational needs of people in poor countries. The regime could also improve the mechanisms under which new information goods are transferred across borders, expanding the possibilities for fruitful diffusion of technologies.The implications of these reforms will be far-reaching, complex and hard to predict.
Content:
It is possible, for example, that stronger patents will simply redistribute incomes across nations, generating significant winners and losers without much overall innovation gains. It is also possible that R&D investments could become more concentrated among the developed and newly industrialized economies but bypass the poorer locations.Ultimately, all such questions need close theoretical and empirical scrutiny.In this volume several economists who are closely involved in such analysis offer comprehensive and analytical literature surveys of the central questions regarding the linkages between intellectual property protection, international trade and investment, and economic growth. The authors range widely over their particular areas of inquiry. At the international level the contributions cover such questions as policy coordination in IPR, dispute resolution, markets for technology and technology transfer, international innovation, parallel trade, and economic development.
Note:
Includes index
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Introduction / Keith E. Maskus -- Patents and the market for technology / Ashish Arora, Andrea Fosfuri, Alfonso Gambardella -- Networks, standards and intellectual property rights / Johannes Moenius, Vitor Trindade -- The law and economics of international intellectual property : a primer / Jonathan Putnam -- Knowledge creation and diffusion of public science with intellectual property rights / Jerry Thursby, Marie Thursby -- Intellectual property rights and competition policy / Mattias Ganslandt -- Intellectual property rights, parallel imports and strategic behavior / Mattias Ganslandt, Keith E. Maskus -- Intellectual property rights and international innovation / Walter G. Park -- Intellectual property rights and international technology transfer via trade and foreign direct investment / Kamal Saggi -- The theory of international policy coordination in the protection of ideas / Edwin L.-C. Lai -- The theory of dispute resolution with application to intellectual property rights / Mostafa Beshkar, Eric W. Bond -- Patents and access to essential medicines / Sumner La Croix, Ming Liu -- The scientific origins of the green and gene revolutions / Robert E. Evenson -- Incorporating a globalized intellectual property rights regime into an economic development strategy / Keith E. Maskus -- Patents and information diffusion / Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1016/S1574-8715(2007)2
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