Intellectual property rights as foreign direct investments: Current state of affairs in Serbia

Intellectual Property Rights and Foreign Direct Investment

Adelaide to strengthen teaching and research in the field of international economics and closely related disciplines. Its specific objectives are: • to promote individual and group research by scholars within and outside the University of Adelaide • to strengthen undergraduate and postgraduate education in this field • to provide shorter training programs in Australia and elsewhere • to conduct...

Intellectual property rights and foreign direct investment : A disaggregated analysis

This paper aims at overcoming several shortcomings of previous empirical studies on the relationship between IPR protection and FD!. First of all, we use sectorally disaggregated FDI data for a large sampie of host countries. Second, we address the proposition that stronger IPR protection raises not only the quantity but also the quality of FD!. Third, we check to which extent the relationship ...

Intellectual property rights and foreign direct investment: A welfare analysis

This paper examines how intellectual property rights (IPR) protection affects innovation and foreign direct investment (FDI) using a North–South quality-ladder model incorporating the exogenous and costless imitation of technology and subsidy policies for both R&D and FDI. We show that for the interior steady state to be stable, either R&D or FDI subsidy rates must be positive. Our findings als...

State-Dependent Intellectual Property Rights Policy∗

What form of intellectual property rights (IPR) policy contributes to economic growth? Should a company with a large technology lead receive the same IPR protection as a company with a more limited advantage? Should followers be able to license the products of technology leaders? We develop a general equilibrium framework to investigate these questions. The economy consists of many industries a...

The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Encouraging Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfer