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Patents and the Global Diffusion of New Drugs

Cockburn, Iain M.; Lanjouw, Jean O.; Schankerman, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper studies how patent rights and price regulation affect how fast new drugs are launched in different countries, using newly constructed data on launches of 642 new drugs in 76 countries for the period 1983-2002, and information on the duration and content of patent and price control...

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A Cautious Approach to Public Policy and Loot Box Regulation

McCaffrey, Matthew - 2019

Researchers are making progress toward determining some of the psychological implications of video game loot boxes, yet the literature still has a long way to go before it can provide a sound basis for policy recommendations. Despite this limitation, however, early studies of loot boxes and...

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Uneven Progress in Meeting E-Government Challenges in Asia-Pacific

Wescott, Clay G. - 2014

that facilitate the process. Yet there are financial, staffing, and cultural barriers which can slow down countries from …

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Induced Diffusion : Definition, Review and Suggestions for Further Research

Diaz-Rainey, Ivan - 2012

There has been a good deal of work on how policy interventions can encourage the development of new/improved innovations (induced innovation). There are, however, only limited and disparate contributions on how, if at all, policy interventions can encourage the greater use of existing...

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Emerging Markets and the World Patent Order : The Forces of Change

Abbott, Frederick M.; Correa, Carlos M.; Drahos, Peter - 2014

The implementation of patent law in the emerging market countries is having an impact on the international patent …

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Sustainable Development and Market Liberalism's Shotgun Wedding : Emissions Trading Under the Kyoto Protocol

Driesen, David M. - 2014

warming as a means of exploring broader international governance issues. The trading regime seeks to marry two models of … global governance, market liberalism, which embraces markets as the model of global governance, and sustainable development … make difficult technological choices may prove unrealistic. This article unsettles prevailing notions of governance and …

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Thinking Globally, Acting Regionally : The Case for a Pacific Climate Treaty

Wewerinke-Singh, Margaretha - 2017

The Model Pacific Climate Treaty presented in this report is a draft model treaty for the Pacific region aimed at averting the multiple threats posed by climate change. The initiative of a Pacific Climate Treaty builds on the momentum of the Paris Agreement adopted under the United Nations...

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Understanding Knotted Tensions in Purveying Pandemic Public Monitoring Technologies

Moeini, Mohammad; Möhlmann, Mareike; Hummel, Jochem Thomas - 2020

Pandemic public monitoring technologies (PPMT) could be an integral building block of pandemic management. Yet their development and operation warrants reconciling the privacy vs. pandemic containment trade-off, which poses serious challenges to PPMT purveyors. In this paper, we decompose this...

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Technology Wars : Mending the Failure of Democratic Discourse

Mandel, Gregory N. - 2016

Controversies over the use and regulation of various technologies pervade public discourse and have serious implications for the public interest. Conflicts over the regulation of genetically modified food, nuclear power, and nanotechnology, among others, fuel some of the most socially and...

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Navigating the Governance Challenges of Disruptive Technologies : Insights from Regulation of Autonomous Systems in Singapore

Pande, Devyani; Taeihagh, Araz - 2023

and social robots can benefit society significantly, but these systems also present significant governance challenges in …

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