Universal intellectual property rights: Too much of a good thing?

Emmanuelle Auriol, Sara Biancini and Rodrigo Paillacar

International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2019, vol. 65, issue C, 51-81

Abstract: Developing countries’ incentives to protect intellectual property rights (IPR) are studied in a model of vertical innovation. Enforcing IPR boosts export opportunities to advanced economies but slows down technological transfers and incentives to invest in R&D. Asymmetric protection of IPR, strict in the North and lax in the South, leads in many cases to a higher world level of innovation than universal enforcement. IPR enforcement is U-shaped in the relative size of the export market compared to the domestic one: rich countries and small/poor countries enforce IPR, the former to protect their innovations, the latter to access foreign markets, while large emerging countries free-ride on rich countries’ technology to serve their internal demand.

Keywords: Intellectual property rights; Innovation; Imitation; Duopoly; Developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F13 F15 L13 O31 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2019.01.003

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