Abstract for: Dynamics of Enforcement and Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights and Implications for Innovation Incentives

The literature recognizes the dynamics of Intellectual Property Rights implementation. However, a framework that examines these dy-namics and analyses the interactions is missing. We use established theory to build a system dynamics model that explores the feedback effects of Intellectual Property Rights use, infringement and en-forcement to explain how the strength of Intellectual Property Rights arises. Model analysis reveals that the strength of Intellec-tual Property Rights arises endogenously without being tied to the formulation of the law.