"South Korea known as the hermit kingdom was wrenched from its isolation in the mid-seventies with the forced industialisation of its economy by Park Chung-hee during his dictatorial regime. This led South Korea to becoming the most rapidly industialised country in the world with world class...

This book examines how intellectual property (IP) is used in Japan, and how in recent years it has developed a new approach to IP, borrowed from the US and Europe, stressing the importance of innovation, to revitalise the Japanese economy from the stagnation and deflation that characterised the...

Cross border intellectual property and theoretical models / Ruth Taplin -- Innovation and intellectual property rights in China and India : prospects and strategies / Bernard Arogyaswamy, Lisa Dolak -- African intellectual property law and the newly emerging African economies with an emphasis on...

Roots of IP drive and economic globalization -- Japan as an IP nation -- Historical perspective of the economy and IP -- Cross-border IP and fast tracking of patent applications -- Changes to the patent court and employee's rights to compensation -- Changes in Japanese corporate governance --...