International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under A Globalized

Distinguished economists, political scientists, and legal experts discuss the implications of the increasingly globalized protection of intellectual property rights for the ability of countries to provide their citizens with such important public goods as basic research, education, public health, and environmental protection. Such items increasingly depend on the exercise of private rights over technical inputs and information goods, which could usher in a brave new world of accelerating technological innovation. However, higher and more harmonized levels of international intellectual property rights could also throw up high roadblocks in the path of follow-on innovation, competition and the attainment of social objectives. It is at best unclear who represents the public interest in negotiating forums dominated by powerful knowledge cartels. This is the first book to assess the public processes and inputs that an emerging transnational system of innovation will need to promote technical progress, economic growth and welfare for all participants.

ISBN 0521603021   Pages 938 ISBN13 9780521603027 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 1464 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780521841962 Publication date 08 Jun 2005   Height (mm) 228 Library of Congress 2005047000   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 346.048   Spine width (mm) 56 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

1		The globalization of private knowledge goods and the privatization of global public goods by Keith E. Maskus and Jerome H. Reichman		3
2		The regulation of public goods by Peter Drahos		46
		Comment : norms, institutions, and cooperation by Robert O. Keohane		65
3		Distributive values and institutional design in the provision of global public goods by Peter M. Gerhart		69
4		Koyaanisqatsi in cyberspace : the economics of an "out-of-balance" regime of private property rights in data and information by Paul A. David		81
5		Linkages between the market economy and the scientific commons by Richard R. Nelson		121
		Comment I : public goods and public science by Eric Maskin		139
6		Sustainable access to copyrighted digital information works in developing countries by Ruth L. Okediji		142
7		Agricultural research and intellectual property rights by Robert E. Evenson		188
		Comment II : using intellectual property rights to preserve the global genetic commons : the International Treaty On Plant Genetic Resources For Food And Agriculture by Laurence R. Helfer		217
8		Can the TRIPS agreement foster technology transfer to developing countries? by Carlos M. Correa		227
		Comment I : technology transfer on the international agenda by Pedro Roffe		257
9		Patent rights and international technology transfer through direct investment and licensing by Keith E. Maskus and Kamal Saggi and Thitima Puttitanun		265
		Comment II : TRIPS and technology transfer - evidence from patent data by Samuel Kortum		282
10		Proprietary rights and collective action : the case of biotechnology research with low commercial value by Arti K. Rai		288
11		Do stronger patents induce more local innovation? by Lee G. Branstetter		309
12		Markets for technology, intellectual property rights, and development by Ashish Arora and Andrea Fosfuri and Alfonso Gambardella		321
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'It is a laudable and, according to the editors, unprecedented, attempt to bring together contributions from a range of authors on a key issue facing the intellectual property world at present. ... The authors are distinguished economists, political scientists and legal experts. ... this is a thorough and stimulating work, bringing together diverse views of a range of experts on the impact of IP on efforts to tackle the developing world crisis. Given how important and urgent it is for this global issue to be tackled, it is hoped that it will be widely read and provoke greater, and better informed, debate among the broader IP world.' European Intellectual Property Review ' ... a very useful book ... indispensable to anyone who is interested in the law and economics of science, innovation, technology diffusion, and intellectual property rights (IPR) protection in the global context.' World Trade Review

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