Patents and technology transfer Sample Clauses

Patents and technology transfer a short review of the debate 1. Strong(er) patent protection in developing nations may increase the inventive efforts in the developing countries themselves, and thereby increase the rate of growth in these countries. 2. Patents allow for (international) licensing, so that firms in developing countries may buy technology from firms in (technologically) more advanced nations (technology transfer). 3. Strong(er) patent protection may be necessary to induce firms from developed countries to engage in one of many different economic transactions that may lead to technology transfer. One may think of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), exports (to developing nations) of capital goods embodying technological knowledge, joint ventures between firms in developing and developed countries, etc. Without some form of protection of their knowledge in the foreign markets, firms from developed nations may choose not to engage in these activities, because they run the risk of their knowledge being copied. 4. Developing nations that do not provide a system for protection of intellectual property of imported technology run the risk of retaliation in terms of trade restrictions. Especially the U.S. government has (recently) been active to enforce protection of intellectual property of U.S. firms by means of trade measures (Xxx Xxxx and Junne, 1993). All of these reasons are not only subject to academic debate by theorists, they were and are also subject of intense negotiations in international organizations such as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) (see, e.g., Xxxx, 1990, Xxx Xxxx and Junne, 1993, and World Bank, 1998). Xxx Xxxx and Xxxxx (1993) describe how in the 1960s and 1970s, the large majority of developing countries began to oppose the implementation of a (strong) patent system in their own economies: “Developing countries did not deny that industrial property systems could encourage industrialization, but contended that in developing countries, due to the weak economic and technological structures, they did not bring the desired benefits. It was argued that in developing countries the privileges created by the industrial property systems failed both to stimulate inventions among their own nationals and did not encourage the rapid transfer, appropriate adaptation or widespread diffusion of imported technology” (p. 22). Thus, the argument was twofold: first that the technological capabilities of firms in developing ...
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