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International Joint Ventures and Internal vs. External Technology Transfer : Evidence from China
Jiang, Kun - 2018
ventures in China from 1998 to 2007--roughly a quarter of all international joint ventures in the world--we find, first, that … virtually absent in broad sectors that include economic activities for which China's FDI policy has prohibited joint ventures …
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Blockchain for Timely Transfer of Intellectual Property
Cai, Dongling; Qian, Yi; Ning, Nan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This article adopts a marketing perspective to examine how blockchain technology can facilitate innovation by streamlining the licensing process of intellectual property (IP). It notes that in the traditional world, there can be a tension between inventors and developers when it comes to...
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Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment, and Industrial Development
Branstetter, Lee - 2009
This paper develops a North-South product model in which Southern imitation and the North-South flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) are endogenously determined. In the model, a strengthening of IPR protection in the South reduces the rate of imitation, which, in turn, increases the flow of...
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Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment : Theory and Evidence
Branstetter, Lee - 2007
This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the effect of strengthening intellectual property rights in developing countries on the level and composition of industrial development. We develop a North-South product cycle model in which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are...
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Catching-Up to Foreign Technology? Evidence on the "Veblen-Gerschenkron" Effect of Foreign Investments
Peri, Giovanni - 2004
The presence of foreign multinational enterprises may benefit local economies. In particular, highly productive foreign-owned firms may promote technological catch-up of local firms. Such channel of spillovers is defined as "Veblen-Geschenkron" effect of Foreign Direct Investments and is...
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Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth : Firm-Level Evidence from the United States
Keller, Wolfgang - 2003
We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment (FDI) between the years of 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to significant productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI...
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Is China's FDI Coming at the Expense of Other Countries?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2005
We analyze how China's emergence as a destination for foreign direct investment is affecting the ability of other … countries to attract FDI. We do so using an approach that accounts for the endogeneity of China's FDI. The impact turns out to … vary by region. China's rapid growth and attractions as a destination for FDI also encourages FDI flows to other Asian …
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Inventors and Pirates : Creative Activity and Intellectual Property Rights
Grossman, Herschel I. - 2000
This paper analyzes how both the value of ideas created as well as the security of intellectual property rights result from the choices of potentially creative people either to engage in creative activity or to be pirates, and from decisions of people who are engaged in creative activity to...
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Damages and Injunctions in the Protection of Proprietary Research Tools
Schankerman, Mark - 1999
Profit on proprietary research tools is determined partly by the remedies for infringement, such as damages and injunctions. We investigate how damages under a liability rule and the opportunity for injunctions under a property rule can affect the incentives to develop research tools. We show...
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Innovation Fertility and Patent Design
Hopenhayn, Hugo A. - 1999
It may be advantageous to provide a variety of kinds of patent protection to heterogenous innovations. Innovations which benefit society largely through their use as building blocks to future inventions may require a different scope of protection in order to be encouraged. We model the problem...
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