Modern deep and comprehensive economic partnership agreements have, as a central aim, the protection of the value of corporate assets deployed in international commerce, especially intellectual property. Different metrics and different policy lenses are needed to evaluate the impact of the asset...

With an increasing share of global commerce taking place in digital form or facilitated by digital platforms, it is becoming increasingly important to update the rules-based framework to accommodate and enable the development of the intangibles-based data-driven economy while reconciling the...

The possible creation of an Asian Economic Zone has been debated quite often in the last years. This is not shared by countries specially attached to the strict dimension of national sovereignty. The worldly trends of globalization and interdependence turn it into an urgency as Asia is required...

While the economic theory predicts that developing countries will gain the most from technology spillovers, there have been only a few analyses looking at this question empirically. The present study focuses on a panel of 27 transition and 20 Western European countries between 1990 and 2006 and...

China's emergence as a key player in the global electronics industry has ignited concerns among its East Asian neighbors. Upper and middle-income economies fear that China's rise is hollowing out their electronics industrial base. Lower-income economies worry that they cannot compete with...

This article is a survey of literature that provides general suggestions and recommendations as to how the top ten wealthiest African American owned businesses (six of the ten companies operating in two industries) can partner with African countries suitable to their expertise for mutual...

This study aims to empirically examine how the innovation activities would change in face of shocks stemming from heightened US-China tensions for US high-tech firms from trade sectors with China. It is found that although the overall innovation intensity drops during periods of heightened...

The objective of this working paper is to demonstrate that the Pacific Alliance constitutes an opportunity for the Parties of this process, to separate themselves from the schemes established in past negotiations regarding the protection of Intellectual Property Rights, in order to build a new...