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. This approach
concentrates on tangible and codified knowledge creation and
diffusion in research and development (R&D) that can be
protected via patents and other intellectual property rules and
regulations. In terms of global policy initiatives, however, it is
becoming increasingly clear that the WTO in particular is mostly a
conflict-resolution facility rather than a global governance body
able to generate cooperation and steer international coordinated
policy action. At the same time, rent extraction and profits
streaming from legal hyperprotection have become pervasively
important for firm strategies to compete in a globalized
marketplace. "Knowledge Governance: Reasserting the Public
Interest" offers a novel approach - knowledge governance - in order
to move beyond the current regime.
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