Trips, Trade, and Technology Transfer
Abstract
A North-South model of unintentional technology transfer is developed where the stringency of sountern patent protection provides the institutional backdrop for a strategic game in a high-tech goods market. The appropriability regime is set endogenously and combines elements of imperfect sounthern patent protection with the protection afforded by market-made northern technology "masquing". Less stringent protection of northern intellectual property can "work" much like other strategic trade policies; therefore, developed countries appear to be right in demand discussion of intellectual property rights in GATT.Suggested Citation
M. Scott Taylor. "Trips, Trade, and Technology Transfer" The Canadian Journal of Economics 26.3 (1993): 625-637.
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