研討日期	2010年12月4日10:30 ~ 12:00
研討地點	台大社會科學院26教室
討論題目	題目	作者	文獻出處
	The Purification-Straw Theory of IPR Protection	Kim-Sau Chung & Chia-Hui Lu	Working paper
報告人	Chia-Hui Lu
參加人員	呂佳慧、黃鴻、梁文榮、林燕淑、吳芝文、王光正、周冰瑤、王佳琪、彭正浩、莊復賢、周品旭、曹古駒、徐靖、高國峯、劉亮君、王羿傑、蔡明芳、鐘暳陵、涂光億、丁虹仁、施姵全
摘要	Purification straw is a product developed and sold for profit by innovators from the North, but consumed only at the South. We develop a framework that incorporates products like this. In our model, consumers at North and South have the same preference, but different incomes lead them to consume different baskets. When North is richer, innovation activities shift from low-end products to high-end ones, benefiting the well-off countries at the South, but hurting the truly poor ones. The conventional wisdom that South benefits more from pirating than from IPR protection is correct only for those well-off members. The truly poor ones are better off protecting IPR in order to encourage “inventing for the other 90%”. This fits the robust empirical fact that intended IPR protection is a U-shape function of country incomes. Northern innovators are unlikely to advocate in one voice for stronger IPR protection in the truly poor countries, however.