Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53409 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 59.2011
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
With the rise of the knowledge economy, delivering sound innovation policies requires a thorough understanding of how knowledge is produced and diffused. This paper takes a step to analyze a new form of globalization, the so-called system of Global Innovation Networks (GINs), to shed light on how the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) influences their creation and development. We focus on the role of IPR protection in fostering international innovative activities in emerging economies (South), such as China and India, and more generally, how IPRs affect the development of GINs between newly industrialized countries and OECD countries. Using both survey-based firm-level and country-level global data, we find IPRs to be an important determinant of participation in GINS from a Southern perspective. We find IPR protection at home and its harmonization across county pairs foster South-North formation of GINs. We also find that a stringent regime in the destination country discourages foreign international innovative activities that originate in NICs. Both levels of our analysis confirm the ICT industry, particularly the hardware segment, to rely on IPRs when engaging in the international outsourcing and offshoring of innovation or in patenting activities abroad.
Subjects: 
Gravity Model
Information Communication Technology
Innovation
Intellectual Property Rights
International collaborations
Networks
JEL: 
D23
F53
O34
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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