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How American Capitalism Really Works: Some Lessons for Developing Countries
William Lazonick Defined as the act of forming a new business, entrepreneurship is viewed as a prime way in which individualism can contribute to...
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Entrepreneurial Ventures and the Developmental StateA basic intellectual challenge for those concerned with the poverty of nations is to come to grips with the nature and causes of the wealth of the world’s wealthier nations. One might then be in a position to inform the poorer nations how they might...
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Does the New Economy Need All the Old IPR Institutions?
by Paul A David In the knowledge-driven economy the continuous search for new, reliable knowledge and the generation and absorbing of new information...
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The Weightless Developing Economy
by Danny T. Quah For the last fifty years, economists and development practitioners have viewed the accumulation of physical capital-machines...
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The Impact of Higher Standards in Patent Protection for Pharmaceutical Industries under the TRIPS Agreement -Part of Journal Special Issue The Rise of China and India
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Making a COVID-19 vaccine globally available once developedDevelopment and production of a COVID-19 vaccine There is a high risk that the intellectual property (IP) rights of a COVID-19 vaccine will effectively block people in many poorer countries from accessing it. To avoid this situation, I propose that a...
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The debate around intellectual property rights and the COVID-19 vaccine
The most effective way to fight COVID-19 is by vaccinating against infection. But once the vaccine is developed, how can it be distributed across the...
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The International Mobility of Cultural TalentArtists, musicians and writers have always been great travellers. Today, their talent circulates in new ways, and takes new forms, as the creative industries expand globally in a marriage of media technology and the traditional arts. The growing...
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Are knowledge monopolies driving global inequality?
In a new release for the UNU-WIDER and Cambridge University Press Elements in Development Economics series, I look at global capitalist economic...
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Network Externality and Software PiracyThe pervasiveness of the illegal copying of software is a worldwide phenomenon. Software piracy implies a huge loss of potential customers of original software buyers, which directly translates into revenue losses for the software industry. Given...
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The Impact of Higher Standards in Patent Protection for Pharmaceutical Industries under the TRIPS AgreementA comparative study is undertaken that explores Chinese and Indian pharmaceutical industries under different patent regimes. It is found that relative to India, which had implemented process patent until 2005, China with a product patent regime since...
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Entrepreneurship and the Developmental StatePart of Book Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
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Innovative Enterprise and Economic DevelopmentPart of Book Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
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