The European Union and Japan have recently launched negotiations about a bilateral free trade agreement as means of economic stimulation, with trade as a driving force to create growth and wealth. Since customs duties are already low, the success of the liberalization process hinges on the...

The question of patents in biotechnology may be viewed as a matter of science and technology policy, such that globalization and the knowledge society are at a crossroads with biopolitics. In the United States this issue is viewed as a matter of policies pertaining to public knowledge policy,...