Intellectual property rights and innovation in developing countries

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chen, Y; Puttitanun, T
• 署名单位: University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; California State University System; San Diego State University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2004.11.005
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 474-493
• 关键词: Intellectual property rights; INNOVATION; Economic development

摘要

This paper studies intellectual property rights (IPRs) and innovation in developing countries. A model is developed to illustrate the trade-off between imitating foreign technologies and encouraging domestic innovation in a developing country's choice of IPRs. It is shown that innovations in a developing country increase in its IPRs, and a country's IPRs can depend on its level of development non-monotonically, first decreasing and then increasing. Empirical analysis, with a panel of data for 64 developing countries, confirms both the positive impact of IPRs on innovations in developing countries and the presence of a U-shaped relationship between IPRs and economic development. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.