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Intellectual Property Rights in the Asian‐Pacific Region: problems, patterns, and policy

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  • Denise Eby Konan
  • Sumner J. La Croix
  • James A. Roumasset
  • Jeffery Heinrich

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This paper explores recent theory and evidence regarding increased protection of intellectual property rights (ZPRs) in Asia. Knowledge has significant public good aspects making optimal provision a problem of trading off universal access against adequate incentives for R&D. Given the ease of evasion of IPR relative to tariffs, attempts to push low and middleincome countries to higher levels of protection may be against their national interests. The Uruguay Round may encounter less than enthusiastic enforcement. Further efforts to refine IPR protection might usefully be focused on flexibility instead of harmonisation.

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  • Denise Eby Konan & Sumner J. La Croix & James A. Roumasset & Jeffery Heinrich, 1995. "Intellectual Property Rights in the Asian‐Pacific Region: problems, patterns, and policy," Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, The Crawford School, The Australian National University, vol. 9(2), pages 13-35, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:apacel:v:9:y:1995:i:2:p:13-35
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8411.1995.tb00111.x
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