Year: 2006
Type: report
Abstract: Intellectual property (IP) protection involves a trade-off between the undesirability of monopoly and the desirable encouragement of creation and innovation.Optimal policy depends on the quantitative strength of these two forces.We give a quantitative assessment of current IP policies.We focus particularly on the scale of the market, showing that as it increases, due either to growth or to the expansion of trade, IP protection should be reduced.
DOI: 10.3386/w12769
Authors: Michele Boldrin, David Levine
Language: English
Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W1540258194