Intellectual Property Rights and International R and D Competition /

This paper examines a country's incentives for intellectual property rights (IPR) protection in a global trading environment. There is a time inconsistency problem intrinsic to IPR protection: ex ante strong protection is warranted to promote innovation, but once discovery takes place there is...

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Autor principal: Scandizzo, Stefania
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/081
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF