Intellectual property rights, development, and catch up : an international comparative study / edited by Hiroyuki Odagiri ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Odagiri, Hiroyuki, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual property--Economic aspects--Developing countries.

Intellectual property.

Economic development--Developing countries.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For most countries, economic development involves a process of 'catching up' with leading countries at the time. This is never achieved solely by physical assets and labour alone: also needed are the accumulation of technological capabilities, educational attainment, entrepreneurship, and the development of the necessary institutional infrastructure. One element of this infrastructure is the regime of intellectual property rights (IPR), particularly patents. Patents may promoteinnovation and catch up, and they may foster formal technology transfer. Yet they may also prove to be barriers for de

Contents:

Contents; List of Contributors; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; I. EARLY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; 2. IPR and US Economic Catch-Up; 3. Knowledge Flows and Catching-Up Industrialization in the Nordic Countries: The Roles of Patent Systems; 4. IPR and the Catch-Up Process in Japan; II. POST-WORLD WAR II DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; 5. IPR and Technological Catch-Up in Korea; 6. IPR and Catch-Up: The Case of Taiwan's IC Industry; 7. Israel's High-Tech Catch-Up Process: The Role of IPR and Other Policies; III. LATIN AMERICA; 8. Innovation and IPR in a Catch-Up-Falling-Behind Process: The Argentine Case

9. Accumulation of Technological Capabilities and Economic Development: Did Brazil's IPR Regime Matter?IV. ASIA; 10. Relationships between IPR and Technology Catch-Up: Some Evidence from China; 11. The Accumulation of Capabilities in Indian Pharmaceuticals and Software: The Roles that Patents Did (and Did Not) Play; 12. The Roles of IPR Regime on Thailand's Technological Catching Up; 13. Conclusion; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-963963-9

0-19-157345-0

1-282-53477-7

9786612534775

OCLC:

645144295