This article aims at presenting the content and the frame of the TRIPs. Agreement. It starts by introducing the reader to the terms that defined the world economical climate by the time of the Agreement negociation. Also, it explains the need of having an Agreement on intellectual property...

In the context of the performance requirements implied by the development of a knowledge based economy, we look at industrial property as an important tool thereof

Throughout the EU, retailing is increasingly becoming dominated by a small number of supermarket chains.

The main objective of the present approach is, first of all, to analyse the "transaction costs" concept and then to prove scientifically the relation transaction costs – institutions.