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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Author(s) -
PARK WALTER G.,
GINARTE JUAN CARLOS
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
contemporary economic policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.454
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1465-7287
pISSN - 1074-3529
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7287.1997.tb00477.x
Subject(s) - intellectual property , economics , property rights , microeconomics , law , political science
This paper studies the relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and economic growth for a cross‐section of countries for the period 1960–1990. The analysis focuses on effects of IPRs on growth using a quantitative index of IPRs. The paper finds that IPRs affect economic growth indirectly by stimulating the accumulation of factor inputs like R&D and physical capital. The positive effects of IPRs on factor accumulation, particularly of R&D capital, are present even when the analysis controls for a more general measure of property rights