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Intellectual Property Rights and Foreign Direct Investment: A Welfare Analysis

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  • Hitoshi Tanaka

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    (Faculty of Economics, Hokkai-Gakuen University)

  • Tatsuro Iwaisako

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    (Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University)

Abstract

This paper examines how intellectual property rights (IPR) protection affects innovation and foreign direct investment (FDI) using a North-South quality-ladder model incorporat- ing the exogenous and costless imitation of technology and subsidy policies for both R&D and FDI. We show that for the interior steady state to be stable, either R&D or FDI sub- sidy rates must be positive in the costless imitation model. Our findings also indicate that strengthening IPR protection promotes both innovation and FDI. Moreover, a strengthen- ing of IPR protection can also improve welfare if the initial IPR protection in the South is weak.

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Paper provided by Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics and Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) in its series Discussion Papers in Economics and Business with number 13-15.

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Length: 62 pages
Date of creation: Jul 2013
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Handle: RePEc:osk:wpaper:1315
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Keywords: foreign direct investment; innovation; intellectual property rights protection;

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  • F43 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Economic Growth of Open Economies
  • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
  • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital

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Cited by:

  1. Tatsuro Iwaisako, 2012. "Welfare effects of patent protection and productive public services: why do developing countries prefer weaker patent protection?," Discussion Papers in Economics and Business 12-19, Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics and Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP).
  2. Suzuki, Keishun, 2014. "Southern Innovation and Foreign Direct Investment," MPRA Paper 57054, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  3. Chu, Angus C. & Cozzi, Guido & Furukawa, Yuichi, 2013. "A Schumpeterian Analysis of Monetary Policy, Innovation and North-South Technology Transfer," Economics Working Paper Series 1319, University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science.
  4. Kamal Saggi, 2016. "Trade, Intellectual Property Rights, and the World Trade Organization," Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers 16-00014, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics.

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