Protecting Intellectual Property Rights and Promoting Economic Growth

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-102
Author(s):  
Amir Ullah Khan ◽  
Aarti Bharadwaj
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Protecting Intellectual Property

scholarly journals Effects of patents on the transition from stagnation to growth

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 395-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angus C. Chu ◽  
Zonglai Kou ◽  
Xilin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Population Size ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Growth Model ◽  
Patent Protection ◽  
Theoretic Analysis ◽  
Schumpeterian Growth ◽  
Long Run

Abstract This study provides a growth-theoretic analysis of the effects of intellectual property rights on the take-off of an economy from an era of stagnation to a state of sustained economic growth. We incorporate patent protection into a Schumpeterian growth model in which take-off occurs when the population size crosses an endogenous threshold. We find that strengthening patent protection has contrasting effects on economic growth at different stages of development. Specifically, it leads to an earlier take-off but also reduces economic growth in the long run.

Do intellectual property rights involve a private power to tax

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-224
Author(s):  
Carla Marchese
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Right ◽  
Mainstream Economic ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Monopoly Profit ◽  
Private Power ◽  
Bundle Of Rights

This article criticises the standard approach to intellectual property rights, interpreted as property rights conferring a monopolistic position, by showing that a public good is not a suitable basis for a private monopoly and that the bundle of rights included in an intellectual property right is so different from those enjoyed under a standard monopoly as to suggest that a different mechanism is at work, that is, a private power to tax has been granted. To highlight how this novel approach works, mainstream economic models of economic growth based on research and development, whether protected or not by intellectual property rights, are revisited. The theory of taxation is then recalled to show that taxes involved by intellectual property rights can range from an amount equal to the monopoly profit to Lindahl taxes. Finally, the principles of taxation elaborated by economic theory are examined for clues to improving the design of intellectual property rights.

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