Intellectual Property Rights, Development, and Catch Up

For most countries, economic development involves 'catching up' with leading countries. This needs more than physical assets and labour: it requires technological capabilities, educational attainment, entrepreneurship, and development of the necessary institutional infrastructure, including intellectual property rights, particularly patents.

1. Introduction ; PART I: EARLY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ; 2. IPR and US Economic Catch-Up ; 3. Knowledge Flows and Catching-Up Industrialization in the Nordic Countries: The Roles of Patent Systems ; 4. Catch-Up Process in Japan and the IPR System ; PART II: POST-WORLD WAR II DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ; 5. IPR and Technological Catch-Up in Korea ; 6. IPRs Regime and Catch-Up: The Taiwanese Experience ; 7. Israel's High Tech Catch-Up Process: The Role of IPR and Other Policies ; PART III: LATIN AMERICA ; 8. Innovation and IPR in a Catch-Up-Falling-Behind Process: The Argentine Case ; 9. Accumulation of Technological Capabilities and Economic Development: Did Brazil's IPR Regime Matter? ; PART IV: ASIA ; 10. Relationships between IPR and Technology Catch-Up: Some Evidences from China ; 11. The Accumulation of Capabilities in Indian Pharmaceuticals and Software: The Roles that Patents Did (and Did Not) Play ; 12. The Roles of IPR Regime on Thailand's Technological Catching-Up ; 13. Conclusion