Intellectual property rights and global imitation chains: the north–south–east model

Caner Demir and Aykut Lenger

Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, 2019, vol. 36, issue 2, No 9, 549-569

Abstract: Abstract This study investigates the effects of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection on economies by proposing a three-pole global economy model. The main proposition of the study is that the classical two-pole approach (north–south) does not reflect the technological heterogeneity and conflicts within the developing world. Therefore, a three-pole world economy model which consists of the following regions has been designed; the north which innovates the northern products, the east which innovates the eastern products and also tries to imitate the northern products, and lastly, the south which tries to imitate both the eastern products and the northern products that have been already imitated by the east. Thus, the model suggests a world system depending on global imitation chains. The numeric simulation results reveal firstly, the northern region benefits from tighter IPR policies in any case; secondly, stronger protection of IPR certainly exerts negative effects in the south while it brings benefits the eastern region in a way that highlights the main contribution of the paper.

Keywords: Intellectual property rights; Imitation; Developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O19 O34 O39 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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