Intellectual Property Rights, Development, and Catch Up An International Comparative Study

by Odagiri, Hiroyuki; Goto, Akira; Sunami, Atsushi; Nelson, Richard R.

• ISBN13: 9780199639632
• ISBN10: 0199639639
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

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 thedevelopment of the necessary institutional infrastructure. One element of this infrastructure is the regime of intellectual property rights (IPR), particularly patents. Patents may promote innovation and catch up, and they may foster formal technology transfer. Yet they may also prove to be barriersfor developing countries that intend to acquire technologies through imitation and reverse engineering. The current move to harmonize the IPR system internationally, such as the TRIPS agreement, may thus have unexpected consequences for developing countries.This book explores these issues through an in depth study of eleven countries ranging from early developers (the USA, Nordic Countries and Japan), and Post World War 2 countries (Korea, Taiwan, Israel) to more recent emerging economies (Argentina, brazil, China, India and Thailand).With contributions from international experts on innovation systems, this book will be an invaluable resource for academics and policymakers in the fields of economic development, innovation studies and intellectual property laws.

Author Biography

Richard R. Nelson is George Blumenthal Professor of International and Public Affairs, Business and Law, Emeritus, at Columbia University, and Director of the Program on Science Technology, and Global Development at the Columbia Earth Institute.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Early Developing Countries
IPR and US Economic Catch-Up	p. 31
Knowledge Flows and Catching-Up Industrialization in the Nordic Countries: The Roles of Patent Systems	p. 63
IPR and the Catch-Up Process in Japan	p. 95
Post-World War II Developing Countries
IPR and Technological Catch-Up in Korea	p. 133
IPR and Catch-Up: The Case of Taiwan's IC Industry	p. 168
Israel's High-Tech Catch-Up Process: The Role of IPR and Other Policies	p. 208
Latin America
Innovation and IPR in a Catch-Up-Falling-Behind Process: The Argentine Case	p. 247
Accumulation of Technological Capabilities and Economic Development: Did Brazil's IPR Regime Matter?	p. 280
Relationships between IPR and Technology Catch-Up: Some Evidence from China	p. 317
The Accumulation of Capabilities in Indian Pharmaceuticals and Software: The Roles that Patents Did (and Did Not) Play	p. 361
The Roles of IPR Regime on Thailand's Technological Catching Up	p. 378
Conclusion	p. 378
Index	p. 431
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