Intellectual property rights, development, and catch up : an international comparative study / edited by Hiroyuki Odagiri, Akira Gotō, Atsushi Sunami, and Richard R. Nelson.

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For most countries, economic development involves 'catching up' with leading countries. This needs more than physical assets & labour: it requires technological capabilities, educational attainment, entrepreneurship, & development of the necessary institutional infrastructure, including intellectual property rights, particularly patents.

1. Introduction 1 Hiroyuki Odagiri, Akira Goto, Atsushi Sunami, and Richard R. Nelson I. Early Developing Countries 2. IPR and US Economic Catch-Up 31 David C. Mowery 3. Knowledge Flows and Catching-Up Industrialization in the Nordic Countries: The Roles of Patent Systems 63 Kristine Bruland and Keith Smith 4. IPR and the Catch-Up Process in Japan 95 Hiroyuki Odagiri, Akira Goto, and Atsushi Sunami II. Post-World War II Developing Countries 5. IPR and Technological Catch-Up in Korea 133 Keun Lee and Yee Kyoung Kim 6. IPR and Catch-Up: The Case of Taiwan's IC Industry 168 Hsueh-Liang Wu, Yi-Chia Chiu, and Ting-Lin Lee 7. Israel's High-Tech Catch-Up Process: The Role of IPR and Other Policies 208 Meir Pugatch, Morris Teubal, and Odeda Zlotnick III. Latin America 8. Innovation and IPR in a Catch-Up-Falling-Behind Process: The Argentine Case 247 Andrés López 9. Accumulation of Technological Capabilities and Economic Development: Did Brazil's IPR Regime Matter? 280 Roberto Mazzoleni and Luciano Martins Costa Póvoa IV. Asia 10. Relationships between IPR and Technology Catch-Up: Some Evidence from China 317 Lan Xue and Zheng Liang 11. The Accumulation of Capabilities in Indian Pharmaceuticals and Software: The Roles that Patents Did (and Did Not) Play 361 Bhaven N. Sampat 12. The Roles of IPR Regime on Thailand's Technological Catching Up 378 Patarapong Intarakumnerd and Peera Charoenporn 13. Conclusion 412 Hiroyuki Odagiri, Akira Goto, Atsushi Sunami, and Richard R. Nelson Index 431.
For most countries, economic development involves 'catching up' with leading countries. This needs more than physical assets & labour: it requires technological capabilities, educational attainment, entrepreneurship, & development of the necessary institutional infrastructure, including intellectual property rights, particularly patents.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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