International intellectual property rights protection and the rate of product innovation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lai, ELC
• 署名单位: Vanderbilt University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3878(97)00059-X
• 发表日期: 1998
• 页码: 133-153
• 关键词: Intellectual property rights; INNOVATION; imitation

摘要

Using a dynamic general equilibrium model of the international product cycle we found that the effects of strengthening intellectual property rights protection (IPP) in South depend cricially on the channel of production transfer from North to South. Stronger IPP in South increases the rate of product innovation, production transfer and Southern relative wage if foreign direct investment is the channel of production transfer, but has opposite effects if production is transferred through imitation. Stronger IPP can be more broadly interpreted as any incentive given by South to encourage Northern FDI. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.