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The big push to a knowledge‐based economy with intellectual property rights protection
Author(s) -
Uchida Hideaki
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
review of development economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1467-9361
pISSN - 1363-6669
DOI - 10.1111/rode.12686
Subject(s) - intellectual property , incentive , enforcement , imitation , law and economics , economics , state (computer science) , business , property rights , industrial organization , international trade , market economy , microeconomics , law , political science , computer science , social psychology , algorithm , psychology
This study examines the reasons some developing countries would not enforce intellectual property rights (IPR) protection. In a country with low IPR protection, firms have much incentives to imitate better technology. Therefore, the enforcement of IPR protection is necessary to prohibit imitation. However, given a state in which many agents are imitating technologies, it is difficult to enforce IPR protection because these agents have no incentives to protect IPR. Considering such a situation, we investigate the interaction between IPR institutions and technology choice. Furthermore, we discuss policy issues to achieve IPR protection.