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Innovation, Intellectual Property and Development Narratives in Africa
de Beer, Jeremy - 2015
Human development, including not just economic growth but also the capability for longer, healthier and more fulfilling lives, depends on innovation and creativity. While various economic, technological, social and other factors influence innovative and creative activity, intellectual property...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015556
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The Politics of Intellectual Property Reform in Developing Countries : The Relevance of the World Intellectual Property Organization
Deere Birkbeck, Carolyn - 2014
Despite the emphasis of international IP treaties, such as the TRIPS Agreement, on common minimum IP standards, considerable diversity exists among developing countries regarding the nature and scope of IP standards, approaches to administration and enforcement, and the responsiveness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071117
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Reforming Governance to Advance the WIPO Development Agenda
Deere Birkbeck, Carolyn - 2009
The success of the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Development Agenda will depend upon reforms to the agency's governance. At the 2007 WIPO General Assemblies, several of the recommendations on the Development Agenda adopted by member states specifically alluded to the need for...
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Leveraging the International Economy of Intellectual Property
Mandel, Gregory N. - 2014
Most international intellectual property debates ignore the fundamental question of how to optimize the global environment for innovation, focusing instead on whether a particular policy benefits or harms a particular country. The cost of this misplaced focus is significant as states fight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055730
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Intellectual Property Rights and the WTO : Innovation Dynamics, Commercial Copyrights and International Governance
Budzinski, Oliver; Monostori, Katalin - 2012
In the context of the WTO, intellectual property rights (IPR) are codified in the TRIPS-agreement. While covering all the different types of IPR, landmark cases of the still young history of TRIPS have dealt with commercial copyrights. This paper summarizes the basic economics of the IPR branch...
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Defining WIPO's Development Agenda
de Beer, Jeremy - 2015
How can WIPO's Development Agenda be better defined, and who has the power to define it? Is there a unifying principle or set of principles animating the clusters of recommendations that formally constitute the agenda? If so, how might a principled definition inform and guide implementation?...
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Chapter 16. Cultural Diversity, Copyright, and International Trade
Macmillan, Fiona - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 2, (pp. 411-437). 2014
This chapter argues that the international copyright system, which is now embedded in the international trading system … (TRIPS Agreement), has operated at least in relation to some types of copyright-protected cultural goods and services (as … produced by certain aspects of copyright law itself allied with aspects of behavior in the global market for cultural goods and …
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Patent-related actions taken in WTO members in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Wu, Xiaoping; Khazin, Bassam Peter - 2020
COVID-19, caused by SARS-Cov-2, was declared to be a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. Since then, the issue of the relationship between patent protection and the development of and access to medical treatments and technologies - a longstanding and enduringly important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312624
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The Effect of Intellectual Property Rights on Domestic Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Sector
Gamba, Simona - 2016
This paper analyses the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on pharmaceutical innovation in a panel of 74 countries. The identification strategy exploits the different timing across countries of two sets of IPR reforms. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522504
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The effect of intellectual property rights on domestic innovation in the pharmaceutical sector
Gamba, Simona - 2016
This paper analyses the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on pharmaceutical innovation in a panel of 74 countries. The identification strategy exploits the different timing across countries of two sets of IPR reforms. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509446