Intellectual Property Rights and South-North Global Innovation Networks

M. Comune, Alireza Naghavi and Giovanni Prarolo ()

Working Papers from Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Universita' di Bologna

Abstract: This paper explores the role of IPR protection in the emergence of R&D linkages from newly emerging economies. Using data from a new survey on Chinese and Indian firms in the ICT sector, we find IPR protection to be key in the engagement of Southern firms in global innovation networks. A complementary exercise uses global bilateral patent data to investigate the location-specificity of IPR enforcement for this phenomenon. We find that a stringent IPR regime in the North (South) discourages (encourage) foreign patenting activities of firms in the South, suggesting that a global convergence of IPRs can stimulate Southern innovation.

JEL-codes: F2 O1 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ino, nep-ipr, nep-pr~, nep-knm and nep-net
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