INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS by Mario Cimoli (Editor), Giovanni Dosi (Editor), Keith E. Maskus (Editor) ( 9780199660759 )

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Title:

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
LEGAL AND ECONOMIC CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPMENT

By:

Mario Cimoli (Editor), Giovanni Dosi (Editor), Keith E. Maskus (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0199660751

ISBN 13:

9780199660759

Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

8 May, 2014

Series:

Initiative for Policy Dialogue

Pages:

540

Description:

A volume on intellectual property rights, economic development, technical change, and innovation dynamics and learning. It considers implications of IP rights and regimes on learning and innovation in developing countries and on the effects on technical change on national growth strategies.

Synopsis:

In recent years, Intellectual Property Rights - both in the form of patents and copyrights - have expanded in their coverage, the breadth and depth of protection, and the tightness of their enforcement. Moreover, for the first time in history, the IPR regime has become increasingly uniform at international level by means of the TRIPS agreement, irrespectively of the degrees of development of the various countries. This volume, first, addresses from different angles the effects of IPR on the processes of innovation and innovation diffusion in general, and with respect to developing countries in particular. Contrary to a widespread view, there is very little evidence that the rates of innovation increase with the tightness of IPR even in developed countries. Conversely, in many circumstances, tight IPR represents an obstacle to imitation and innovation diffusion in developing countries. What can policies do then?This is the second major theme of the book which offers several detailed discussions of possible policy measures even within the current TRIPS regime - including the exploitation of the waivers to IPR enforcement that it contains, various forms of development of 'technological commons', and non-patent rewards to innovators, such as prizes. Some drawbacks of the regimes, however, are unavoidable: hence the advocacy in many contributions to the book of deep reforms of the system in both developed and developing countries, including the non-patentability of scientific discoveries, the reduction of the depth and breadth of IPR patents, and the variability of the degrees of IPR protection according to the levels of a country's development.

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Imprint:

Oxford University Press

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