DESIGN, KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

The Intellectual Property Regime and its Implications for Knowledge Exchange

Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property

The current international system for protecting intellectual property was fashioned during the age of enlightenment and industrialization and developed subsequently in line with the perceived needs of technologically advanced societies. However, in recent years, indigenous peoples, local communities, and governments, mainly in developing countries, have demanded equivalent protection for tradit...

Knowledge spillovers and intellectual property rights

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classifications: L26 O14 O16 O31 O33 O34 Keywords: Knowledge spillovers R&D intensity Entrepreneurship Intellectual property rights Copyright Legal formalism Knowledge spillovers are widely thought to be important for innovative activity, yet theory is ambiguous about the sign of the relationship. Assuming that knowledge spillovers are more easily exploited where intel...

Intellectual Property Protection and Traditional Knowledge

“Indigenous cultural knowledge has always been an open treasure box for the unfettered appropriation of items of value to Western civilization. While we assiduously protect rights to valuable knowledge among ourselves, indigenous people have never been accorded similar rights over their cultural knowledge. Existing Western intellectual property laws support, promote, and excuse the wholesale, u...

‘Intellectual Property’ and Knowledge Creation in Disorganisations

Given the current forms of economic production and corporate markets, the liberating and democratic potential of digital information is counteracted by the concentration of media ownership, as well as by policy, legislation, and the development of proprietary forms of technology. The notion of ‘intellectual property’ produces artificial scarcity where digital technology could remove it. This te...