Nope.
>Foreign
>enterprises would be more willing to transfer technology as it became
>protected under local law. Foreign direct investment would increase as
>local conditions became more technology protection-friendly"?
Maybe.
>-Did Schumpeter have a point at all when he said competing companies
>(especially smaller domestic ones) are often less likely to invest in such
>things than ones protected from competition?
Yes.
>This matters if the 'monopoly
>rights' conferred by the IPR regime always get extended to outside firms,
>no?
Yep.
>-Is this why so high a proportion of technology transfer actually occurs
>within the firewalls of MNEs?
I suspect so...
>I mean, Abbott's being just a tad disingenuous here, doncha think? Seems
>to me at least some of the reasons Srinivasan finds that "[m]ost of the
>gainers from TRIPS are in rich developed countries and only a few, if any,
>in poor countries" might be found in the above list ...
Yep.