Reading for Social and Economic Benefits of Intellectual Property

Week 2

Required Reading/Viewing

(1) Read Romers paper Two Strategies for Economic Development: Using Ideas and Producing Ideas

http://paulromer.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Two-Strategies-for-Economic-Development-
Using-Ideas-and-Producing-Ideas.pdf

(2) Read Maskus, Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Development

http://www.colorado.edu/economics/mcguire/workingpapers/cwrurev.doc

(3) Idris, K., Intellectual Property: A Power Tool for Economic Growth, WIPO Publication 888.1, June
2002 (copy posted in Week 2 folder)

Optional Reading and References

(1) Read Romers paper on Endogenous Technological Change

Posted in Week 2 folder, originally downloaded from

http://graduateinstitute.ch/files/live/sites/iheid/files/sites/developpement/users/Natascha_Wagne
r/public/Romer_1990.pdf

(2) Read Chapter 4 of Jones, C. I., Macroeconomics, 2nd ed.

(3) Read Falvey, et. al. paper, Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Growth

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=715982

(4) Read Solows paper Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1926047

(5) Read Solows paper A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1884513

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 Reading for Social and Economic Benefits of Intellectual Property

Week 2

(6) Reference Falvey and Foster, The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Technology Transfer and
Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence

http://www.unido.org/fileadmin/user_media/Publications/Pub_free/Role_of_intellectual_property
_rights_in_technology_transfer_and_economic_growth.pdf

Intriguing, Unexplored Texts

(1) Greenhalgh, C. and Roger, M., Innovation, Intellectual Property , and Economic Growth

(2) Maskus, K., Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Economy

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