Management and Global Business Fall 2023 Seminar Series: Anita McGahan
Anita McGahan from the Rotman School of Management of the University of Toronto: The Exportation of Science from Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
The Exportation of Science from Low- and Middle-Income Countries:
Scholars studying systems of innovation argue that Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) systems affect the development of scientific knowledge in implementing countries. In this paper, we examine an underexplored effect of IPR implementation: the dissemination of existing scientific knowledge from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) into high-income countries (HICs). Exploiting the staggered implementation of the Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in difference-in-differences analysis, we find evidence of increased diffusion of existing knowledge from LMICs to HICs. This and associated findings suggest that the implementation of an IPR system in LMICs leads to changes in the behavior of scientists in HICs. The results raise new questions about how incentives created by IPR systems affect the conduct of global science and the nature of knowledge diffusion.
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