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Information and intellectual property: The global challenges
Aiyer Ghosh, Rishab; Soete, Luc - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
has changed the essential nature of innovation - driven by widespread access to the ability to replicate and improve … - remains the same. Hence a focus on endogenous innovation policy is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856327
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Breaking the Fence: Patent Rights and Biomedical Innovation in 'Technology Followers'
Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue. Although a "medical anti … difficult to predict the impact of patenting on biomedical innovation in developing and least developed countries. This paper … develops a framework of analysis for the impact of patent rights on biomedical innovation in "technology follower" developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712264
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TRIPs and Capability Building in Developing Economies
Rasiah, Rajah - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2002
This paper argues that three major issues need to be addressed when examining the effects of the WTO's TRIPs agreement on capability building in developing economies. First, the agreement looks at seven instruments, which have both common as well as differing implications for capability building...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712365
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Economic Adversity and Entrepreneurship-led Growth - Lessons from the Indian Software Sector
Athreye, Suma - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
It is commonly believed that the business environment in developing countries does not allow productive technology-based entrepreneurship to flourish. In this paper, we draw on the experience of Indian software firms where entrepreneurial growth has belied these predictions. This paper argues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856323
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Innovation and Competitive Capacity in Bangladeshs Pharmaceutical Sector
Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
The global pharmaceutical sector is highly patent intensive, and firms rely on product, process and formulation patents to protect their innovations. Intellectual property rights on pharmaceutical products, as contained in the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856343
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Open innovation, contracts, and intellectual property rights: an exploratory empirical study
Hagedoorn, John; Ridder, Ann-Kristin - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
open innovation. We find that firms active in open innovation have a strong preference for the governance of their open … innovation relationships through formal contracts. These contracts are relevant from both a control and a process monitoring … perspective. Also, despite the open nature of open innovation, firms still see intellectual property rights as highly relevant to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712125
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Demanding Stronger Protection for Geographical Indications: The Relationship between Local Knowledge, Information and Reputation
Rangnekar, Dwijen - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2004
Unlike patents and intellectual property rights in plant genetic material, TRIPs negotiations concerning geographical indications have not entered wider public imagination. However, TRIPs negotiations in this area have been and continue to be contentious. One area of contention is the explicit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712377
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Breaking the Fence: Can Patent Rights Deter Biomedical Innovation in “Technology Followers”?
Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2005
The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue. Although a “medical anti … difficult to predict the impact of patenting on biomedical innovation in developing and least developed countries. This paper … develops a framework of analysis for the impact of patent rights on biomedical innovation in “technology follower” developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712400
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Defining an Intellectual Property Right on Traditional Medicinal Knowledge: A Process-Oriented Perspective
Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2003
traditional knowledge and the set of beneficiaries that are to exercise the right. Using the theory of cumulative innovation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712408
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Appropriability mechanisms, innovation and productivity: Evidence from the UK
Hall B.H.; Sena V. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
between appropriability mechanisms, innovation and firm-level productivity. We enrich this model in several ways. First, we … consider different types of innovation spending and study the differences in estimates when innovation spending rather than RD … spending is used to predict innovation in the CDM model. Second, we assume that a firm simultaneously innovates and chooses …
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