The tradeoff of intellectual property rights reconsidered

Auteurs

  • Cristiano Antonelli

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https://doi.org/10.22409/reuff.v10i2.34887

Résumé

Intellectual property rights have a twin effect on the economic system.On the one hand they increase the incentives to the introduction of new technologicalknowledge. On the other they increase the costs of the generation ofnew knowledge because they limit the access to an indispensable input such asexisting knowledge. A tradeoff between such positive and negative effects canbe formalized so as to identify of the ‘correct’ levels of knowledge rents...

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Publiée

2008-12-18