Intellectual Property, Trade and Development
Subtitle: Strategies to Optimize Economic Development in a TRIPS Plus Era
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780199684700
Subjects: Intellectual property; Foreign trade regulation; Economic development
Description: This work responds to the increasing need in many countries to better understand linkages between intellectual property, trade rules, and economic and social development, and to find new ways of implementing intellectual property rules and optimizing their effects. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the latest legal, economic, political and social research and advanced current thinking on the relationship between intellectual property and trade and development. With new chapters addressing access to educational resources and innovation in the developing world, the use of traditional knowledge as a source of innovation, and TRIPS, TRIPS Pus and Developments across the whole of South Asia, this fully updated second edition presents new insights and discussions from economists and social scientists and benefits from access to the latest metrics and analytical tools available.--