Information and intellectual property: The global challenges
Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer and Soete, Luc (2006). Information and intellectual property: The global challenges. UNU-MERIT.
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Author Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer
Soete, LucTitle Information and intellectual property: The global challenges Publication Date 2006 Publisher UNU-MERIT Abstract The paper analyses the contribution of 'golden papers' - seminal works whose ideas remain as fresh and relevant today as when they were first published decades ago - and which continue to dominate academic discourse among successive generations of scholars. The authors analyse why two works written within an industrial development context: The simple economics of basic scientific research, by Richard Nelson (1959) and Kenneth Arrows Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention (1962), are so relevant in today’s knowledge-driven economic paradigm. Focusing on the papers’ application to current global policy debates on information/knowledge and intellectual property, they argue that while the context has changed the essential nature of innovation - driven by widespread access to the ability to replicate and improve - remains the same. Hence a focus on endogenous innovation policy is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago. UNU Topics of Focus Technology and innovation Keyword Knowledge economy
Science
Technology and innovation
Intellectual property rights
Institutional changeCopyright Holder UNU-MERIT Copyright Year 2006 ISSN 1871-9872 -
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