Intellectual Property Protection and U.S. Foreign Direct Investment

1996 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeong-Yeon Lee ◽  
Edwin Mansfield
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Intellectual Property Protection

scholarly journals Intellectual Property and Foreign Direct Investment

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
Nur Hayati Abd Rahman ◽  
Khairunnisa Abd Samad ◽  
Shahreena Daud ◽  
Zarinah Abu Yazid
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Random Effect ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Intellectual Property Protection ◽  
Annual Data ◽  
New Business ◽  
Asean Countries ◽  
High Level

With help from both domestic and international markets, ASEAN countries are able to catch-up withthe latest economic development if they can sustain high economic growth for a long-period of time. To doso, the resources available in countries such as capital and labors should fully be utilized up to theoptimum level. The capital itself can be in many forms such as investment. Since most of the ASEANcountries are categorized as developing countries, the reliance on foreign direct investment (FDI) as asource of growth is highly needed as it helps the economy to step on a higher stage of economic developmentvia the roles of foreign experts and technological transfer. In ensuring a higher level of investment, there isa need to ensure a high level of intellectual property protection since it assists in promoting invention,innovation and new business development. In opposite, lacking in protection might discourage foreigninvestors to invest in the countries, thus limiting the ability of the countries to grow further. Therefore, theaim of this paper is to examine whether strong intellectual property protection will really help in attractingmore foreign investors to invest in ASEAN-5 countries. Using annual data from 2007 to 2016, panel dataestimation using random effect is employed. It was found that the ASEAN-5 countries should strengthentheir intellectual property protection in order to stimulate higher foreign investments. Nevertheless, inbetween copyright and patents, copyrights protection gives significant effect to the FDI inflows relative tothe latter one. It indicates that the countries are slowly moving out from the production-based economy andcatching-up towards a digital economy. Keywords: ASEAN-5, foreign direct investment, intellectual property protection, digital economy, copyrights

scholarly journals Does China’s OFDI Successfully Promote Environmental Technology Innovation?

Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Bing Han
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Threshold Effect ◽  
Intellectual Property Protection ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Outward Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Environmental Technology

Environmental technology innovation is a crucial measure of the quality of China’s economic development and sustainable environmental protection. Based on the 2009–2017 provincial panel data from China, this article used the modified projection pursuit model to measure the environmental technology innovation capabilities of various regions. Moreover, this article empirically investigates the threshold effect of outward foreign direct investment on China’s environmental technology innovation under different intellectual property protection levels. The results are as follows. First, the environmental technology innovation capabilities of China’s regions vary significantly, showing an “east-middle-west” gradient decline trend similar to levels of economic development. Second, outward foreign direct investment has a significant reverse environmental technology innovation effect, but this effect has complex nonlinear characteristics. Third, in the process of outward foreign direct investment affecting environmental technology innovation, intellectual property protection has a significant double threshold effect. As the level of intellectual property protection continues to cross the threshold value, the effect direction of outward foreign direct investment on environmental technology innovation undergoes a sudden change from inhibition to promotion. However, when intellectual property protection is too high, the promotion effect is relatively limited. This paper provides some reference points and insights that should aid in establishing a scientific intellectual property protection system and raising the level of environmental technology innovation.

Foreign Direct Investment, Intellectual Property Rights, and Productivity Growth

2014 ◽  
Vol 05 (03) ◽  
pp. 1440009
Author(s):  
Sasatra Sudsawasd ◽  
Santi Chaisrisawatsuk
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Outward Fdi ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Ipr Protection

Using panel data for 57 countries over the period of 1995–2012, this paper investigates the impact of intellectual property rights (IPR) processes on productivity growth. The IPR processes are decomposed into three stages — innovation process, commercialization process, and protection process. The paper finds that better IPR protection is directly associated with productivity improvements only in developed economies. In addition, the contribution of IPR processes on growth through foreign direct investment (FDI) appears to be quite limited. Only inward FDI in developed countries which creates better innovative capability leads to higher growth. In connection with outward FDI, only the increase in IPR protection and commercialization are proven to improve productivity in the case of developing countries, particularly when the country acts as the investing country.

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