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

Emmanuelle Auriol, Sara Biancini () and Rodrigo Paillacar
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Sara Biancini: THEMA - Théorie économique, modélisation et applications - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CY - CY Cergy Paris Université
Rodrigo Paillacar: THEMA - Théorie économique, modélisation et applications - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CY - CY Cergy Paris Université

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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)
Date: 2019-07
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Published in International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2019, 65, pp.51-81. ⟨10.1016/j.ijindorg.2019.01.003⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2019.01.003

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