This paper analyzes how both the value of ideas created as well as the security of intellectual property rights result from the choices of potentially creative people either to engage in creative activity or to be pirates, and from decisions of people who are engaged in creative activity to...

Development of any kind is always linked to one kind of innovation or the other. In fact, it is posted that the abolition of slave trade in Europe at the time was due to the impact of patent. For a country like Nigeria to develop in all fours, there is an urgent need to have a vibrant patent...

Small businesses in the United States are a major source of innovation and economic growth and employ more scientists and engineers than either large businesses or universities. In spite of these facts, recent reform in the patent system has had a disproportionately negative impact on small...

Few topics in the life sciences today provoke as much debate as the availability of patent protection on "genetic inventions". Some hold that protection is essential to encourage innovation and development of new products. Others argue that patents restrict access to the very innovations they...

This paper analyzes how both the value of ideas created as well as the security of intellectual property rights result from the choices of potentially creative people either to engage in creative activity or to be pirates, and from decisions of people who are engaged in creative activity to...