Technology Transfer and North-South

Strategic Intellectual Property Protection Policy and North-South Technology Transfer

I analyze the welfare implications of protecting intellectual property rights (IPRs) in developing countries through its impact on innovation, market structure, and technology transfer. FDI, tariffs, and cooperation are introduced to the strategic IPR literature. In a North-South framework, the Southern government sets the IPR policy strategically by anticipating the Northern firm’s decision on...

North–north, North–south, and South–south Relations

Externalities in North-South technology transfer: the case of CNG engines in Iran

This contribution focuses on illuminating the challenges and difficulties of North-South technology transfer. The central message of this paper is that North-South technology transfer is not simply a contract between two transacting firms and does not depend only on intra-firm and inter-firm factors. The process may also be influenced by a number of external factors, beyond the control or power...

Technology Transfer with Competitive Markets in the South

This paper develops a model of technology transfer in an environment where Þrms in developing countries are unable to recover the costs of imitation and adaptation, because a competitive market structure in the South rules out any monopoly rents accruing to Southern Þrms. In such an environment, the technology transfer must be initiated by a Northern Þrm which risks its technology being copied ...

Globalisation , Productivity and Technology Research Paper 2002 / 23 North - South Trade , Knowledge Spillovers and Growth

The endogenous growth literature has stimulated empirical research into links between trade and growth in general and international knowledge spillovers in particular. Results relating to the latter have been mixed and the issue of the appropriate construction of the spillover variable remains contentious. In this paper we develop measures taking account of whether knowledge is a public or priv...