How Argentine Farmers Overpowered Monsanto: The Mobilization of Knowledge-users and Intellectual Property Regimes

The Access to Knowledge Mobilization and the New Politics of Intellectual Property

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...

R&D Productivity and Intellectual Property Rights Protection Regimes

We study …rms’preferences towards intellectual property rights (IPR) regimes in a North-South context, using a simple duopoly model where a ’North’ and a ’South’ …rm compete in a third market. Unlike other contributions in this …eld, we explicitly introduce the South’s capability to undertake cost-reducing R&D, but maintain the South’s inferiority in utilizing and managing its R&D. In contrast ...

Intellectual Property Regimes, Innovative Capabilities, and Patenting in Korea

In this paper, we empirically investigate whether and to what extent major changes in IPR contributed to subsequent upgrading of innovative capabilities and patenting in Korea. We found that major IPR changes in Korea in the 1980s led to the big increase in patenting, thereby supporting the “friendly court” hypothesis. Especially, the trend of substance patent applications by local residents se...

Intellectual property protection for computer software: a comparative analysis of the United States and Japanese intellectual property regimes

This thesis explores the reform of intellectual property regulation policies with respect to computer software within two advanced industrial nations after 1980. A comparative case analysis of the United States and Japan will provide insight as to how advanced industrial nations have responded to market forces, competing private interests, and international pressure for policy harmonization in ...