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The impact of patent rights on international trade: evidence from Canada

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  • Mohammed Rafiquzzaman
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The extent to which Canadian manufacturing exports are sensitive to national differences in patent rights are examined. The conclusion is that, overall, Canadians tend to export more to those countries where their patent rights are highly safeguarded. Stronger patent protection induces Canadians to export relatively more to high‐income countries than to low‐income countries. In addition, the effect of stronger patent rights is to increase exports to those countries that pose a strong threat of imitation and to reduce exports to those countries that pose the weakest threat of imitation. JEL Classification: F13; O34 Impact de la propriété des brevets sur le commerce international: résultats pour le Canada. Ce mémoire examine jusqu’à quel point les exportations manufacturières canadiennes sont sensibles aux différences dans la propriété des brevets entre pays. L’étude conclut que les Canadiens tendent à exporter davantage vers les pays où la propriété des brevets est hautement protégée.Il appert que la plus forte protection de la propriété des brevets tend à faire que les Canadiens exportent relativement plus vers les pays à hauts revenus que vers ceux à plus faibles revenus. De plus, il appert que l’effet de la plus forte protection des brevets est d’accroître les exportations vers les pays qui posent une forte menace d’imitation et de réduire les exportations vers les pays qui posent la plus faible menace d’imitation.

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  • Mohammed Rafiquzzaman, 2002. "The impact of patent rights on international trade: evidence from Canada," Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 35(2), pages 307-330, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:canjec:v:35:y:2002:i:2:p:307-330
    DOI: 10.1111/1540-5982.00132
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    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital

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