Intellectual Property and Economic Development

In this book the author seeks to remedy the weakness of the relation between intellectual property protection and innovation in developing countries.

List of contents

Intellectual Property Protection as Infrastructure -- What Intellectual Property Is -- How Intellectual Property Works -- Intellectual Property and Economics -- Case Materials From Brazil and Mexico -- Reflections on the Case Materials -- The Myths of Weak Protection -- The Cost of Protection -- Protection: Powerful Development Tool -- Appendixes

About the author

Robert M Sherwood

Summary

 Speaking very roughly, countries with advanced economies tend to be those displaying intellectual property protection systems in which the public has a basic degree of confidence. Those systems, when they are thought about at all rather than taken for granted, are thought of as reasonably effective in safeguarding innovation and creative expressio

Product details

• Authors: Sherwood, Robert M Sherwood, Robert M. Sherwood
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780367015671
• ISBN: 978-0-367-01567-1
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General