One of the explicit goals of the 1995 TRIPS Agreement is promotion of technological innovation and transfer and dissemination of technologies worldwide. We statistically assess the relative impact of TRIPS on technology diffusion in the life sciences sector, using a longitudinal panel dataset...

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There can be few examples in all recorded history of a national transformation wrought on such a scale and in such a short space of time as those that occurred in China over the second half of the twentieth century. There can be fewer still examples of such a transformation in one country...