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Intellectual Property Rights - Legal and Economic Challenges for Development

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A volume on intellectual property rights, economic development, technical change, and innovation dynamics and learning. It considers implications of IP rights and regimes on learning and innovation in developing countries and on the effects on technical change on national growth strategies.


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  • 1: Joseph E. Stiglitz: Introduction

  • Part I: IPR, Innovation and Development: Economic History and Theory

  • 2: Mario Cimoli, Giovanni Dosi, Roberto Mazzoleni, and Bhaven Sampat: Innovation, Technical Change and Patents in the Development Process: A Long Term View

  • 3: Adam B. Jaffe and Albert Guangzhou Hu: Lessons from the Economics Literature on the Likely Consequences of International Harmonization of IPR Protection

  • 4: Jerome H. Reichman: Intellectual Property in the Twenty-First Century: Will the Developing Countries Lead or Follow?

  • Part II: Knowledge Appropriation and Development

  • 5: Sarah Chan, John Sulston, and John Harris: Ethical Incentives for Innovation

  • 6: Anthony D. So, Bhaven N. Sampat, Arti K. Rai, Robert Cook-Deegan, Jerome H. Reichman, Robert Weissman, and Amy Kapczynski: Is Bayh-Dole Good for Developing Countries? Lessons from the US Experience

  • Part III: Experiences from Public Health, Agriculture, and Green Technology

  • 7: Benjamin Coriat and Luigi Orsenigo: IPRs, Public Health, and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Issues in the Post-2005 TRIPS Agenda

  • 8: Alessandro Nuvolari and Valentina Tartari: Innovation, Appropriability, and Productivity Growth in Agriculture: A Broad Historical Viewpoint

  • 9: Tim Swanson and Timo Goeschl: The Distributive Impact of Intellectual Property Regimes: Report from the 'Natural Experiment' of the Green Revolution

  • 10: Michael Halewood: Securing the Global Crop Commons in Support of Agricultural Innovation

  • 11: Minna Allarakhia: Mode of Entry for Emerging Markets: An Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Perspective of the Open Source Development and Management of Biotechnology Knowledge Assets

  • 12: Jerome H. Reichman, Arti K. Rai, Richard G. Newell, and Jonathan B. Wiener: Intellectual Property and Alternatives: Strategies for Green Innovations

  • 13: Keith E. Maskus and Ruth L. Okediji: Economic and Legal Considerations for the International Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies

  • Part IV: Challenges for Governance and Policymaking

  • 14: Carlos M. Correa: Multilateral Agreements and Policy Opportunities

  • 15: Christopher Spennemann and Pedro Roffe: Preferential Trade Agreements and Intellectual Property Rights

  • 16: Leonardo Burlamaqui and Mario Cimoli: Industrial Policy and IPR: A Knowledge Governance Approach

  • Part V. Conclusion

  • Policy Options and Requirements for Institutional Reform



About the author

Mario Cimoli is the Director of the Division of Production, Productivity and Management at the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). He obtained his PhD at the SPRU, University of Sussex (1992), with a thesis that analysed the effect of technological gaps and trade on growth in developing economies. Since 1992 he has served as a Professor of Economics at the University of Venice (Ca'Foscari). In 2004 he was appointed co-director (with Giovanni Dosi and Joseph Stiglitz) of two task forces: Industrial Policy and Intellectual Property Rights Regimes for Development (Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, New York). He was also awarded the Philip Morris Chair of International Business (2004) at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, University of Pisa.

Giovanni Dosi is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Economics at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa. He is also Co-Director of the task forces Industrial Policy and Intellectual Property Rights, for the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University and Continental European Editor of Industrial and Corporate Change. His research areas include economics of innovation and technological change, industrial economics, evolutionary theory, economic growth and development, and organizational studies.

Keith E. Maskus is Professor of Economics and Associate Dean for Social Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has been a Lead Economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank. He is also a Research Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a Fellow at the Kiel Institute for World Economics, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide. He serves also as a consultant for the World Bank and the World Intellectual Property Organization and is currently chairing a panel of the National Academy of Sciences on intellectual property management in standards-setting organizations. Professor Maskus writes extensively about various aspects of international trade. His research focuses on the international economic aspects of protecting intellectual property rights. He is the author of Private Rights and Public Problems: The Global Economics of Intellectual Property in the 21st Century (2012, Peterson Institute for International Economics).

Ruth L. Okediji is the William L. Prosser Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. She has written, lectured, and published extensively on a range of issues in international copyright law and policy, with an emphasis on the role of intellectual property in economic growth and development. Her recent work has examined challenges to the international intellectual property system in the context of multilateral trade policy, scientific research, indigenous innovation systems, and new technologies. She has worked with numerous international and inter-governmental organizations including the United Nations Development Program's (UNDP) flagship project on Innovation, Culture, Biogenetic Resources, and Traditional Knowledge; the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)-ICTSD Capacity Building Project on Intellectual Property Rights and Sustainable Development; and as an Advisor to various governments on compliance with intellectual property treaties.

Jerome H. Reichman is Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law at Duke Law School. He has written and lectured widely on diverse aspects of intellectual property law, including comparative and international intellectual property law and the connections between intellectual property and international trade law. His articles in this area have particularly addressed the problems that developing countries face in implementing the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement). On this and related themes, he and Keith Maskus have recently published a book entitled International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime (2005, Cambridge University Press).

Summary

A volume on intellectual property rights, economic development, technical change, and innovation dynamics and learning. It considers implications of IP rights and regimes on learning and innovation in developing countries and on the effects on technical change on national growth strategies.

Product details

Authors Mario Cimoli, Mario (Director of the Production Cimoli, Mario Dosi Cimoli, Giovanni Dosi, Keith Maskus, Keith E. Maskus, Profess
Assisted by Mario Cimoli (Editor), Giovanni Dosi (Editor), Keith E Maskus (Editor), Keith E. Maskus (Editor), Ruth L Okediji (Editor), Ruth L. Okediji (Editor), Jerome H Reichman (Editor), Jerome H. Reichman (Editor), Joseph Stiglitz (Editor)
Publisher Oxford University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 16.02.2014
 
EAN 9780199660759
ISBN 978-0-19-966075-9
No. of pages 540
Series Initiative for Policy Dialogue
Initiative for Policy Dialogue
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management

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