Costly R&D and intellectual property rights protection Academic Article

abstract

• This paper summarizes some of my product cycle models addressing the role of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection when all forms of R&D, including imitation, are costly. While the settings considered differ, the models all share the feature that a strengthening of IPR protection makes R&D more difficult, and thus causes firms to waste scarce resources 'reinventing the wheel'. Taking the perspective that stronger IPR protection increases the cost of R&D demonstrates how weak IPR protection can aid a country's development by enabling its firms to make efficient use of scarce resources and thus further advance the country's technology frontier.

authors

• Glass, Amy

published proceedings

• INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT

author list (cited authors)

• Glass, A. J.

citation count

• 5

complete list of authors

• Glass, AJ

publication date

• January 2000

publisher

• Inderscience Publishers  Publisher

published in

• International Journal of Technology Management  Journal

keywords

• Foreign Direct Investment
• Imitation
• Innovation
• Intellectual Property Rights

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1504/IJTM.2000.002802

start page

• 179

end page

• 193

volume

• 19

issue

• 1-2

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1504%2Fijtm.2000.002802