Intellectual property rights, development, and catch-up : an international comparative study /

For most countries, economic development involves 'catching up' with leading countries. This needs more than physical assets & labour: it requires technological capabilities, educational attainment, entrepreneurship, & development of the necessary institutional infrastructure, incl...

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Other Authors: Odagiri, Hiroyuki, 1946- (Editor), Gotō, Akira, 1945- (Editor), Sunami, Atsushi, 1965- (Editor), Nelson, Richard R. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Hiroyuki Odagiri [and others]
  • IPR and US economic catch-up / David C. Mowery
  • Knowledge flows and catching-up industrialization in the Nordic countries : the roles of patent systems / Kristine Bruland and Keith Smith
  • IPR and the catch-up process in Japan / Hiroyuki Odagiri, Akira Goto, and Atsushi Sunami
  • IPR and technological catch-up in Korea / Keun Lee and Yee Kyoung Kim
  • IPR and catch-up : the case of Taiwan's IC industry / Hsueh-Liang Wu, Yi-Chia Chiu, and Ting-Lin Lee
  • Israel's high-tech catch-up process : the role of IPR and other policies / Meir Pugatch, Morris Teubal, and Odeda Zlotnick
  • Innovation and IPR in a catch-up-falling-behind process : the Argentine case / Andrés López
  • Accumulation of technological capabilities and economic development : did Brazil's IPR regime matter? / Roberto Mazzoleni and Luciano Martins Costa Póvoa
  • Relationships between IPR and technology catch-up : some evidence from China / Lan Xue and Zheng Liang
  • The accumulation of capabilities in Indian pharmaceuticals and software : the roles that patents did (and did not) play / Bhaven N. Sampat
  • The roles of IPR regime on Thailand's technological catching up / Patarapong Intarakumnerd and Peera Charoenporn
  • Conclusion / Hiroyuki Odagiri [and others].