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000041874 1001_ $$aGraff, Gregory D.
000041874 1001_ $$aPardey, Philip G.
000041874 24503 $$aInventions and patenting in Africa :$$bEmpirical trends from 1970 to 2010
000041874 264_1 $$a[Hoboken, New Jersey] :$$bJohn Wiley & Sons,$$c2019.
000041874 300__ $$a25 pages
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000041874 520__ $$aEconomic development is increasingly dependent upon on utilizing new knowledge to innovate and create value, even in traditional industries and in low‐income countries. This analysis uses evidence on patent families to assess innova- tion activity throughout sub‐Saharan Africa. We find patent activity in sub‐Saharan Africa—both by African inventors and by foreign inventors—is comparable to similar regions around the world, when conditioned on economic size. Patent filings in Africa have grown, particularly, since the mid‐1990s, but at different rates within different African jurisdictions. Types of technologies being patented in Africa have remained stable over 30 years, with most in pharma- ceuticals, chemistry, biotechnology, and engineering. The majority of patent filings in Africa are from Europe, the United States, and other high income countries. Yet, in South Africa, between 15% and 20% of patent filings are by residents of South Africa, and 3% are from other developing and emerging economies. Only a small share of inventions globally are made in sub‐Saharan Africa, but for those inventions that do arise in Africa, foreign filings are made widely outside of Africa.
000041874 525__ $$aPublished in : The Journal of World Intellectual Property, vol. 23, no. 1-2 (2020), pp. 40-64.
000041874 542__ $$aCC BY 4.0
000041874 650_0 $$aAfrica
000041874 650_0 $$aIntellectual property rights
000041874 650_0 $$aInternational technology transfer
000041874 650_0 $$aPatent families
000041874 650_0 $$aPatent offices
000041874 85641 $$uhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jwip.12139$$yView this resource
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