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Intellectual property and development—narratives and their empirical validity
Author(s) -
Peukert Alexander
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the journal of world intellectual property
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.334
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1747-1796
pISSN - 1422-2213
DOI - 10.1111/jwip.12072
Subject(s) - expansionism , intellectual property , section (typography) , narrative , pessimism , empirical research , law and economics , positive economics , economics , political science , sociology , epistemology , law , business , philosophy , linguistics , politics , advertising
The article gives an overview of the relationship between intellectual property (IP) and development. The first section shows that the dominant assumption in the history of IP was that IP rights are generally favorable to socio‐economic progress. The second section explains that economic and historical research has proven this linear expansionist narrative to be untenable. In doing so, the article compares the arguments of IP optimists with counterarguments of IP pessimists in the light of empirical studies. The final section addresses the consequences of these findings for the future of the international IP system.