Culture, intellectual property rights, and technology adoption

Dinithi N. Jayasekara and Per Fredriksson

The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2021, vol. 80, issue C, 317-330

Abstract: This study explains the differences in technology adoption as a result of both culture and intellectual property rights (IPR) protection. We use data for 83 countries and 24 technologies for the time period 1980–2000. An individualistic culture, a strong IPR protection regime, and their joint effect are positively associated with technology adoption. The results hold up to a host of robustness checks.

Keywords: Technology adoption; Culture; Individualism; Collectivism; Intellectual property rights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O30 P48 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2021.03.007

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