Knowledge Governance: Reasserting the Public Interest

Book Overview

This book argues that the current international intellectual property rights regime, led by the World Trade Organization (WTO), has evolved over the past three decades toward overemphasizing private interests and seriously hampering public interests in access to knowledge and innovation diffusion. While it is obvious that firm-level dynamics are changing - toward networks and peer production in technologically leading companies in the developed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783083166
• ISBN13: 9781783083169
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"