Risks of Illicit Trade in Counterfeits to Small and Medium-Sized Firms

Risks of Illicit Trade in Counterfeits to Small and Medium-Sized Firms

Illicit trade in counterfeit goods causes economic damage by reducing sales and profits as well as innovation incentives in legitimate industries. This study looks at damages caused by illicit trade in counterfeits to small and medium-sized enterprises. The robust evidence on the magnitude, scope an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Autores Corporativos: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-), European Union Intellectual Property Office
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : OECD Publishing 2023.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Illicit Trade,
Materias:
Governance
Social Issues/Migration/Health
Trade
Industry and Services
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009720372506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations and acronyms
  • Executive Summary
  • 1 Introduction: The Threat of Counterfeiting
  • The importance of intellectual property
  • Intellectual property and small and medium-sized enterprises
  • The threat of counterfeiting
  • Our data
  • Global customs seizures data
  • Applying seizures data to small and medium-sized enterprises
  • SME Intellectual Property Scoreboard data
  • 2 SMEs and Intellectual Property Rights
  • The economic importance of SMEs
  • SMEs go digital
  • Intellectual property rights and EU SMEs
  • Intellectual property ownership
  • The impact of registering intellectual property
  • Motivations for registration
  • 3 Counterfeiting and the Impact on SMEs
  • SMEs and the threat of counterfeiting
  • Analysing customs seizure data
  • Global trade in counterfeit goods
  • Focus on the EU
  • The role of e-commerce in counterfeit trade
  • Counterfeiting and SMEs - specific patterns
  • 4 IPR Infringement and Enforcement among EU SMEs
  • Rate and type of IPR infringed
  • Market monitoring for infringements
  • Impact of infringement
  • Enforcement of IPR
  • IPR infringement affecting SMEs. Focus on survival
  • Data
  • Dependent variable
  • Main independent variable
  • Control variables
  • Size
  • Age
  • Innovative
  • NACE division
  • Country of seat of a firm
  • Descriptive statistics
  • Econometric specification
  • Results of econometric models
  • Discussion
  • 5 Conclusions and Next Steps
  • Issues for further consideration
  • References
  • Annex A. Recommendation of the Council on SME and Entrepreneurship Policy
  • Annex B. A "Relief Package" for SMEs: Statement by Commissioner Thierry Breton, 19 September 2022
  • Notes.

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