assignment of an intellectual property right does not guarantee the potential beneficial use of new knowledge, not assigning … power of exclusion which limits access by others to the newly produced knowledge. However, the production of new knowledge … is very often a process which starts from a base of existing knowledge. Hence, discouraging access to existing knowledge …

With the rise of the knowledge economy, delivering sound innovation policies requires a thorough understanding of how … knowledge is produced and diffused. This paper takes a step to analyze a new form of globalization, the so-called system of …

through which the knowledge acquired by emigrants abroad can flow back to the South and enhance the skills of the remaining …

property rights failure. Should one establish new property rights in traditional knowledge alone; property rights in genetic … information alone; or in both? We demonstrate that in a world in which traditional knowledge and genetic information are … allocation failure in traditional knowledge even in the absence of a distinct property right. The reason is that traditional …

debated policy tools, as IPR protection addresses knowledge market failure, while EPs respond to pressing local and global … Moment estimator. We show that knowledge transfer through patent duplication increases with the level of IPR protection, but …