Countries are increasingly vying for leadership in advanced-technology industries. In this quest, it’s important countries avoid zero-sum, “innovation mercantilist” policies—such as IP theft, forced technology transfer, or excessive industrial subsidization—that confer unfair, non-market-based advantages for domestic competitors. GTIPA reports here examine innovation mercantilism and its global economic effects.
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The United States, the EU, and Japan must band together in stronger trilateral partnership to pressure China into rolling back the mercantilist trade practices it uses to grow advanced, innovation-driven industries.
The Trade Barrier Index analyzes trade restrictions in 86 countries; accounting for 83 percent of the world's population, 91 percent of all goods and services traded and 94 percent of global GDP. Growing trade tensions are having tangible repercussions on the global economy, such as the US-China trade war or between the US and the European Union. The fundamental role of the interchange of goods and services for development and growth is rediscovered. The debate on the subject needs a tool capable of measuring the extent of trade barriers, the forms in which they can decline and the role they play in limiting investment strategies and exchange policies.
The Global Mercantilist Index, ranking 60 nations on 18 variables ranging from market access and forced localization to currency manipulation and intellectual property protections, finds that China is the world’s most innovation-mercantilist nation.
Robust intellectual property (IP) protection is vital for biopharmaceutical innovation. It provides the incentives and business certainty needed to attract and sustain long-term investment in prevention, treatments and cures. IP rights have little value without enforcement, however.
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The third edition of ITIF’s annual report on the scourge of “innovation mercantilism” highlights 10 of the world’s most glaring examples of protectionist policies subverting innovation.
This second annual report documents the worst innovation mercantilist practices proposed around the world in 2014.
This report ranks 55 nations on the extent of how they practice trade mercantilism.