Developing countries tend to take a negative view of the protection of intellectual property rights as reflected in the TRIPs agreement, as this seems to conflict with their own developmental needs. As the following article points out, there are, however, a number of reasons why developing...

One of the crucial themes in the dialogue between North and South is the nature and volume of the transfer of technology from the industrialized to the developing world. In contrast to the demand of overcoming the “technology gap“ Prof. Baumer argues that the postulate should rather be...