Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2021.1889390
Intellectual property rights and law enforcement in developing countries
Shiue-Hung Lin
Leslie Wu
Abstract
The attitudes of developing countries for intellectual property
rights (IPR) regulations and law enforcement are ambiguous. We
seek to clarify this issue by structuring a model, simultaneously
considering the IPR index and the strength of law enforcement of
China in period 1996–2015. Firstly, the government of a developing country always holds the strictest attitude towards law
enforcement. Secondary, the growing level of IPR leads to the
decrease of the total welfare, but the decline of total welfare
slows down. Third, the motivation of maximising total welfare
induces the governments of developing countries to strengthen
law enforcement. This provides internal motivation for development. The findings of this article show that developing countries
have long-term internal motivations to improve their strength of
IPR levels and law enforcement.
Keywords
Vertical differentiation; intellectual property rights; law enforcement; quality
Hrčak ID:
301680
URI
Publication date:
31.3.2023.
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