Pro-competitive measures under trips to promote technology diffusion in developing countries

Carlos M. Correa

pp. 40-57

in: Peter Drahos, Ruth Mayne (eds), Global intellectual property rights, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Abstract

Economists and policy makers face a difficult dilemma in the area of innovation: how to reconcile the aims of intellectual property, which provides innovators with incentives by restricting use of the innovation and thereby guaranteeing extraordinary gains, with a society's interest in allowing maximum use of innovative products, by keeping their price low and ensuring diffusion, imitation and improvement (OECD, 1992, p. 50).