Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/169346 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 515
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila
Abstract: 
The paper addresses the question of whether expanded and strengthened protection of intellectual property (IP) fosters technology transfer to developing countries. Cross-sectional analysis of a representative sample of firms operating in 42 developing economies indicates that going from no IP protection to maximum IP protection is associated with a 65% increase in the predicted probability of licensing foreign technology for the subpopulation of affiliated firms, whereas the predicted probability is not significantly different from zero for unaffiliated firms. We also find evidence that the environment in which a firm operates moderates the relationship of IP protection and firm-level technology licensing: while going from no IP protection to maximum IP protection is associated with a 47% increase in the predicted probability of licensing foreign technology for firms operating in upper-middle-income countries, there is at best no significant correlation for firms operating in lower-middle-income and lowincome countries.
Subjects: 
developing countries
intellectual property rights
technology licensing
TRIPSAgreement
JEL: 
L24
O14
O19
O34
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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