Trade-Offs and Rip-Offs
Imitation-Led Industrialisation and the Evolution of Trademark Law in Hong Kong
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20436901 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Clayton (0000-0002-8470-0906, University of York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 178-198 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-8992 • E-ISSN: 1467-8446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8446.2011.00330.x |
| OpenAlex | W1824386671 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
Hong Kong's development as an industrial exporter was advantaged by a flexible institutional regime, which generated gains from imitation-led industrialisation and which allowed the mobilisation of public and private resources to enable a transition to a more stringent enforcement regime for intellectual property. Fragmentary industrial structures raised monitoring costs for trademark proprietors and gave opportunities for infringers to exploit information asymmetries. However, colonial state building, the formation of specialist markets in knowledge, and collective actions by business groups caused the law to evolve. These overlapping processes of formal and informal institutional change were mutually reinforcing
Business · Economics · Enforcement · Exploit · Imitation · Industrial organization · Industrialisation · Intellectual property · Law and economics · Market economy · Political science · State (computer science) · Trademark · Asian Studies and History · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |