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Ensuring respect for indigenous cultures: A moral rights approach
Vézina, Brigitte - 2020
From commercials to movies to fashion, Indigenous artworks have been misused in ways that are offensive to the artists who created them and disrespectful of the cultures that inspired them. Using Indigenous traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) without acknowledging their sources or providing...
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Knowledge and its economic characteristics: a conceptual clarification
Witt, Ulrich; Brökel, Tom; Brenner, Thomas - 2007
This paper discusses several features of knowledge that are often considered crucial for characterizing the economic … significance of knowledge: whether it is overtly accessible or tacit, whether it can be or is encoded or not, and whether it has … public or private good character. It is argued that all these features depend similarly on the state of the knowledge …
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Majority-minority constellations: Towards a group-differentiated approach
Koopmans, Ruud; Orgad, Liav - 2020
Multiculturalism has taken a life of its own, swinging too far in one direction. The authors claim that the rapidly changing reality calls for a new majority-minority theory and argue that the moral justifications for cultural minority rights should also apply to majority groups. They present...
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Bolivia's New Constitution: Towards Participatory Democracy and Political Pluralism?
Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut - 2010
In Bolivia, rights to increased political participation and the recognition of indigenous political systems are interrelated. The new constitution of 2009, a prime example of the 'new Andean constitutionalism', defines Bolivia as a representative, participatory and communitarian democracy. It...
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Turning Legal Pluralism into State-Sanctioned Law: Assessing the Implications of the New Constitutions and Laws in Bolivia and Ecuador
Barrera, Anna - 2011
Ethnically diverse societies have long faced the challenge of accommodating distinct and often conflictive normative orders within a single polity. Leaving the ideal of a single, homogeneous legal order aside, many Latin American states have recently acknowledged the right of indigenous peoples...
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Democratizing Resource Governance through Prior Consultations? Lessons from Bolivia's Hydrocarbon Sector
Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut - 2012
With the recent expansion of extractive industries in Latin America, contestations with the affected communities have increased in number and intensity. Therein, the indigenous right to prior consultation and to free, prior and informed consent has played a crucial role. Based on the empirical...
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Innovation systems and knowledge-intensive enterpreneurship: A country case study of Poland
Woodward, Richard; Wojnicka, Elçzbieta; Pander, Wojciech - 2012
This study surveys the current state of affairs in Poland with regard to the development of knowledge … Innovation System, and then focus on KIE itself. Our findings are perhaps more optimistic than many previous studies of knowledge …
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The embodiment of intangible investment goods: A q-theory approach
Belhocine, Nazim - 2008
Recent empirical findings on firms' expenditure towards the creation and acquisition of knowledge goods, otherwise …
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Strategic intellectual property protection policy and north-south technology transfer
Naghavi, Alireza - 2003
I analyze the welfare implications of protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) in developing countries through its impact on innovation, market structure, and technology transfer. FDI, tariffs, and joint ventures (JV) are introduced to the strategic IPR literature. In a North-South trade...
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Patentschutz in der Volksrepublik China aus der Sicht eines deutschen Technologieunternehmens
von Pöllnitz, Holger - 2007
Vor dem Hintergrund der weiter wachsenden Bedeutung der Volksrepublik China in der Weltwirtschaft beschäftigt sich die Arbeit mit dem dortigen Schutz von Patenten. Das chinesische Patentsystem entspricht dem internationalen Standard des TRIPS-Übereinkommens. Die Analyse von Patentanmeldungen...
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