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What a Difference a State Makes: Pharmaceutical Innovation after the TRIPs Agreement

Cover: Business and Politics, 15 (2)

Cover: Business and Politics, 15 (2)

Verena Schüren – 2013

For more than a decade, political science scholars have stressed the harmonizing effect of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs). Recent implementation practices in developing countries, however, have challenged this view. In this article, I argue that different manifestations of innovation systems can lead to varying patterns of innovation. I substantiate this claim through a comparison between the pharmaceutical sectors of India and Brazil. Drawing on the NSI approach, my analysis reveals that different forms of state engagement have played a decisive role for the varying directions of post-TRIPs pharmaceutical innovation in the two countries. The article illustrates that developing countries can opt for different approaches to innovation even after TRIPs and that the socioeconomic effects of global IP regimes can only be assessed properly when taking into account the country-specific configurations of national innovation systems.

Titel
What a Difference a State Makes: Pharmaceutical Innovation after the TRIPs Agreement
Schlagwörter
Teilprojekt D7
Datum
2013
Kennung
ISSN 1469-3569 (Online) ISSN 1369-5258 (Print)
Quelle/n
Erschienen in
Business and Politics, 15 (2), 217-243.
Sprache
eng
Art
Text