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Intellectual property rights and agricultural development: Evidence from a worldwide index of IPRs in agriculture (1961-2018) |
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Mercedes Campi and Alessandro Nuvolari |
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Intellectual property rights; Plant breeders’ rights; Patents; Agricultural
development; International comparison.
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Q01, O31, O34, O50
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This paper revises and updates the Campi-Nuvolari index of intellectual property
protection for plant varieties (Campi and Nuvolari, 2015). The new index has been
updated and provides yearly scores for the period 1961-2018 for a total number
of 104 countries, which have legislation on plant variety protection in force. The
new evidence highlights the tendency towards more similar and stronger systems of
intellectual property rights (IPRs) worldwide, regardless of individual characteristics
of countries. The signing of the TRIPS and of trade agreements with TRIPS-Plus
provisions are major drivers of this process. In addition, certain features of countries
such as the regulatory environment, the level of human capital, the importance of
agricultural production, and openness to trade, are also significant determinants of
the evolution of IPRs systems. We conclude discussing other possible applications of
the data.
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