International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime: The Globalization of Private Knowledge Goods and the Privatization of Global Public Goods
By Keith E. Maskus, J. Reichman. 2004
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Global trade and investment have become increasingly liberalized in recent decades. This liberalization has lately been accompanied by substantive new requirements for strong minimum standards of intellectual property (IP) protection, which moves the world economy toward harmonized private rights in knowledge goods. While this trend may have beneficial impacts in terms of innovation and technology diffusion, such impacts would not be evenly distributed across countries. Deep questions also arise about whether such globalization of rights to information will raise roadblocks to the national and international provision of such public goods as environmental protection, public health, education, and scientific advance. This article argues that the globalized IP regime will strongly affect prospects for technology transfer and competition in developing countries. In turn, these nations must determine how to implement such standards in a pro-competitive manner and foster innovation and competition in their own markets. Developing countries may need to take the lead in policy experimentation and IP innovation in order to offset overly protectionist tendencies in the rich countries and to maintain the supply of global public goods in an emerging transnational system of innovation. Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved, Oxford University Press.
Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation
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- Knowledge as Global Public Good (2015, methodology): “On the hand, we have assisted to a substantial reinforcement of IPRs, enlarging the scope of the Western system also to developing countries and privatizing knowledge that was previously public (Maskus and Reichman, 2004).”
- Environmental Policy Stringency, Technical Progress and Pollution Haven Hypothesis (2020, background): “Maskus and Reichman [56] indicate the need for a balanced approach to the issue of the attraction of the foreign direct investments(FDI) and carbon-mitigating technology transfers in the context of the Global South.”