Abstract
Enhancement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and its implication on developing countries are discussed enormously during the last few decades. The main argument is that even after the mandate of Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), it is not clear whether the developing countries are benefiting from the higher levels of IPR. On the assumption that international harmonization of IPR could make all nations better off, especially lower-income countries, we considered 99 countries from various income groups to test the hypothesis. The present study considers appreciation in the competitiveness of a country as an outcome of enhanced IPR, which encourages innovation in the first stage and competitiveness in the later stage. The study employs new indices, Global Competitiveness Index and IPR Index, respectively, for competition and IPR. We find that the role of IPR is different in different countries for promoting innovation and enhancing competitiveness and growth.
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Notes
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Features which are exclusively aligned to firms like: firm’s rivalry, running out of business and zero sum view of competition are not functional for the ‘location’.
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See Table 6 in Appendix.
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The exclusion factor will be (Current innovation value × Innovation weight in the current year)/100.
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Many can argue that a comparison of pre-IPR era with post-IPR era will get better understanding of the issue that we are considering. The paucity of data is, however, hindering us to carry out the work.
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See Table 7 in Appendix.
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Since GCI is a composite index of many variables that are supposed to be there as explanatory variables, we have considered only three as independent variables.
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Ambrammal, S.K. (2020). Implications of International Harmonization of IPR on Growth and Competitiveness Among the Developing Nations. In: Siddharthan, N., Narayanan, K. (eds) FDI, Technology and Innovation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3611-3_4
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