Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation: Evidence from China
نویسندگان
چکیده
Using a difference-in-difference approach, we study how intellectual property right (IPR) protection affects innovation in China in the years around the privatizations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE privatizations, and this increase is larger in cities with strong IPR protection. Our results support theoretical arguments that IPR protection strengthens firms’ incentives to innovate and that private sector firms are more sensitive to IPR protection than SOEs.
منابع مشابه
Necessity of Criminal Protection of Intellectual Property Rights with a View to its Moral Basis
Background: For several centuries, there has been a debate about the dimensions of intellectual property to support the thinkers of society and prevent their exploitation. Unfortunately, this invisible and powerful asset is increasingly vulnerable. Therefore, establishing favorable regulations, guaranteeing proper criminal enforcement and effective enforcement of laws in order to protect these ...
متن کاملEconomic Growth Center
Of the diverse factors motivating technological change, one factor that has received increasing attention in the recent past has been the protection of intellectual property rights. Given fairly recent changes in the international policy ethos where a regime of stronger intellectual property protection has become a fait accompli for most developing countries, it is of some significance to ask w...
متن کاملTRIPs-Plus Treaties and Strengthening Protection of Pharmaceutical Inventions
After concluding TRIPs agreement, the sphere of negotiation in respect of protecting new kinds of intellectual property rights especially pharmaceutical inventions transferred to bilateral and regional arrangements. TRIPs agreement has some flexibility to attract all countries. Industrialized countries believed that multilateral agreements protections based especially in regard of pharmaceutica...
متن کاملحمایت قانونی از ابداعات دارویی در پرتو مطالعهی تطبیقی
Among the challenging issues of intellectual property law, discussed how to support and protect the drug because of its association with health in developing countries of particular importance and significance of the day incidence has been added. Pharmaceutical products, sometimes due to a combination of two or more chemical or combination of two or more existing drugs to create new drug is som...
متن کاملStage-dependent intellectual property rights
a r t i c l e i n f o Inspired by the Chinese experience, we develop a Schumpeterian growth model of distance to frontier in which economic growth in the developing country is driven by domestic innovation as well as imitation and transfer of foreign technologies through foreign direct investment. We show that optimal intellectual property rights (IPR) protection is stage-dependent. At an early...
متن کامل