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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. …
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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 …
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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...
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been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were … precisely because lessons from previous research on agricultural innovation were "not put into use" in the programme … research: (i) Promoting research into use requires enabling innovation. This goes beyond fostering collaboration, and includes …
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agricultural research should be used for innovation. The paper suggests a number of novel entry points for projects promoting … contested visions of research and innovation within the programme and between the programme and its donors and other …
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This paper first develops a consistent time-series data on the exports of high technology products from essentially the developing countries. An analysis of the data shows that developing countries are increasingly becoming exporters of manufactured products as against primary products in the...
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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...
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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...
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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 …
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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...
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