The aim of this work is contributing to the individuation of indicators of innovation whichbetter describe different territorial types of technological change. To this end, I have first of allassessed the advantages and limitations of the indicators most commonly used (mainly expenditurein r&d...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...

The practical assessment of the intellectual property is a complex and difficult issue due to the myriads of factors influencing it, and to the fact that the methodologies applied differ from one country to another, from one continent to another. Therefore, the responsibility of those who carry...

The Agreement on Trade Related Aspects on Intellectual Property Rights, 1995, has introduced several mandatory changes to patent protection on pharmaceuticals that can affect health care and delivery in developing countries. The potential detrimental impacts of such IPR protection raise three...

This paper begins by surveying recent economic studies of the relationships between technology transfer, intellectual property, innovation and diffusion in emerging countries.  It applies this literature to the Indian case.  India  is a potentially useful case study for several reasons. ...