INSTITUTIONAL VOID AND THE EVOLUTION OF APPROPRIABILITY REGIME - THE CASE OF THE TRANSITION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS POLICY IN TAIWAN

Chihcheng Lo ()
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Chihcheng Lo: Department of Industrial Technology and Education, National Changhua University of Education

No 2303747, Proceedings of Business and Management Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: This paper examines the evolution and stages of Intellectual property rights (hereafter as IPRs) regimes since 1980s by investigating historical and quantitative data of IPRs. We explore how policy network of IPRs responds the development of industries, the evolution of innovation systems, and international IPRs harmonization and in turn affect the profile of IPRs policy. Theoretically, we will identify the determination of institutional voids and ask how Taiwanese industries face the issues related to appropriability regimes and in turn affect the development of innovation system and IPRs policy. The perspective of policy network is used to explore the whole structure of IPRs policy making and justify the role of state and industries in the relative evolution process. We used different types of IPRs data and historical archives to examine how the evolution of IPRs are established to build market, seek innovation chance, to network resources, and finally legitimately ensure approrpriability amongst industries from closed to open innovation regime reach out beyond institutional voids. To sum up, this study regards IPRs regime as a striking case study to demonstrate the effect of institutional voids on the governance choice of policy network. Empirical results will demonstrate that the innovation activity processed by industries is increased only when the appropriability strategies are resumed to catch up with new market created by institutional voids. This would allow us to better assess the global optimality of the array of international IPRs harmonisation currently in use around the world and their interplay. Finally this outcome of this paper have implications of IPRs policy for policy makers in the developing countries.

Keywords: Appropriability regime; policy network; institutional voids; Intellectual property right harmonization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F42 F63 H11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2015-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-ipr and nep-pr~
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 1st Business & Management Conference, Vienna, Jun 2015, pages 211-239

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