Patents, trade secrets and international technology transfer

Michael Klein

Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 210, issue C

Abstract: I study the impact of intellectual property rights on foreign direct investment and technology transfer in developing countries. I find that strengthening patent protection may stimulate foreign investment, but fails to encourage technology transfer. In contrast, strengthening trade secret protection may achieve both goals. These findings suggest that the standard approach to modeling intellectual property rights in terms of a single dimension obscures important differences in the effect of individual aspects of intellectual property law.

Keywords: Intellectual property rights; Patents; Trade secrets; Foreign direct investment; Technology transfer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 O19 O33 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110180

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