Review
Agronomy
John Stephen C. Smith
Summary: This review examines the categorization of Essentially Derived Varieties (EDV) introduced in the 1991 revision of the Convention of the Union internationale pour la protection des obtentions vegetales (UPOV). It also discusses the challenges and progress made in the implementation of the concept in China, India, and other countries.
Article
Computer Science, Software Engineering
Xiang He, Liping Wu, Kai Hu, Lin Wan
Summary: This paper mainly focuses on the cost-benefit issue of plant variety rights and their development status and importance globally. It employs methods like knowledge measurement and data mining to conduct in-depth research on aspects such as application and authorization, protection catalogs, and the structure of variety rights. The study highlights the significance of plant variety rights for agricultural development and food security.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMING
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Liyan Yu, Chengfan Zhao
Summary: This study investigates the impact of the whole chain development of intellectual property on different types of manufacturing firm performance through a panel regression model of listed manufacturing firms from 2010 to 2020. The results show that the whole chain development of intellectual property has a positive effect on manufacturing firm performance, with the strongest effect from intellectual property services, followed by intellectual property utilization and creation. There is a significant lag in the effect of intellectual property management, and a significantly negative relationship between intellectual property protection and manufacturing firm performance. The study also finds that the effect of the whole chain development of intellectual property varies among different types of manufacturing firms, with smaller, non-state-owned, and medium-high-technology firms benefiting more than larger, state-owned, and low-technology firms. The findings contribute to the understanding of intellectual property and firm performance, and have implications for government authorities in optimizing the strategic layout of intellectual property development and promoting the resolution of internal management issues in manufacturing firms.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Martin Fredriksson
Summary: This article discusses the resistance against the global erosion of seed diversity and focuses on the open source seed movement as a way to protect and revitalize traditional landraces and local ecological knowledge.
Review
Agronomy
Niels Louwaars, Bram De Jonge
Summary: Seeds are crucial for agricultural production and food security, impacting both farmers and society. The quality, access, management, and regulations of seeds are key considerations in agriculture.
Review
Genetics & Heredity
Ju-Kyung Yu, Yong-Suk Chung
Summary: This review summarizes the methods of obtaining plant variety protection through the UPOV convention, technical approaches for distinctness, uniformity, and stability testing via phenotype, molecular markers, and sequencing, as well as discussions on related topics including essentially derived variety, value for cultivation and use testing, and open source seed initiative.
Article
Business, Finance
Lei Ding, Peng Xue
Summary: This study examines the impact of intellectual property rights protection on FinTech innovation using panel data from different cities in China. The results show that intellectual property rights protection serves as a positive incentive for driving FinTech innovation, even after considering endogeneity and conducting robustness tests.
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Business
Michele Grimaldi, Marco Greco, Livio Cricelli
Summary: This article investigates the relationship between IP strategies, outbound open innovation, and innovation performance in 158 Italian firms, finding that most companies adopt an impromptu IP strategy and that the lack of any IP protection strategy can hinder outbound open innovation. Firms with defensive IP strategies tend to support outbound open innovation more, while firms with collaborative IP strategies outperform those with defensive strategies.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Business, Finance
Feng Yuan, Jingyan Yuan
Summary: This paper examines the relationship between proprietary information leakage, intellectual property protection, and accounting transparency based on data from A-share listed manufacturing companies (2019-2021). The findings reveal that firms with a higher risk of R & D information leakage tend to have lower accounting transparency as managers aim to safeguard proprietary information and their interests. Moreover, in regions with stronger intellectual property protection, there is an increased incentive for management to reduce accounting transparency in order to protect proprietary information. The level of intellectual property protection significantly affects corporate accounting information disclosure.
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
(2023)
Review
Economics
Shoaib Ali, Heng Tang
Summary: This paper examines the role of intellectual property rights (IPR) in knowledge management (KM) and advocates for both formal and informal IP protection. The study suggests that informal IP protection is valuable and provides comprehensive suggestions for organizations. Informal IP is easy to manage, simple to use, and cost-effective, making it an important aspect of everyday organizational activities.
JOURNAL OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
(2022)
Article
Business, Finance
Baomin Dong, Yibei Guo, Xiaotian Hu
Summary: The protection of intellectual property rights at destination countries significantly affects export product quality, contributing to the improvement of product quality for Chinese exporters. Better intellectual property rights protection benefits less capital-intensive firms, foreign-owned firms, and firms in innovation-intensive industries.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ECONOMICS & FINANCE
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Serena Mariani
Summary: This study investigates the role of EU legislation in shaping innovation in cereal varieties, focusing on the relationship between intellectual property and agricultural law. It highlights the necessity of simplifying the legal framework, coordinating legislation, and improving coherence to effectively shape innovation, address changing societal demands, and sustainability challenges.
Article
Business
Qinghua Song, Qiming Zhong, Songlin Zeng
Summary: Using China's staggered intellectual property pilot and demonstration city (IPPDC) policy and the difference-in-differences method, this study evaluates the impact of intellectual property (IP) protection on corporate innovation. The policy significantly boosts corporate innovation investment and quality by strengthening IP administrative enforcement. Financial innovation mitigates information asymmetry and negative spillovers, promoting the technological development of treated firms. IP pledge financing helps treated firms fund innovation activities by substituting high-failure-tolerance institutional investors. This study reveals the effect of IP protection on corporate innovation, providing insights for emerging economies to formulate public policies and finance systems for innovation-driven development.
EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE
(2023)
Review
Plant Sciences
Zige Yang, Pengfei Zhi, Cheng Chang
Summary: Plants have evolved adaptive strategies to cope with pathogen infections, including establishing immune memory to enhance their responsiveness to pathogens. Seed priming, as an environmentally-friendly crop protection technique, can effectively induce plant immune memory and enhance disease resistance in crops.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Economics
Kangjuan Lv, Minjie Pan, Li Huang, Daqiang Song, Xinlei Qian
Summary: China implemented the National Intellectual Property Rights Demonstration Cities policy in 2012 to strengthen its intellectual property rights system. This study examines the effect and mechanism of this policy on air pollution using a panel data set of 268 Chinese cities from 2003 to 2016. The results show that the establishment of the policy effectively reduces urban air pollution levels, particularly in resource-based cities, and that stronger intellectual property rights protection improves air quality in high-polluting areas.
STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS
(2023)
