International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime

This volume considers the effects of the increasingly globalized protection of intellectual property rights on the ability of countries to provide their citizens with basic research, education, public health, and environmental protection. The contributions of distinquished economists, political scientists, and legal experts accordingly assess public processes and inputs. They reveal what an emerging transnational system of innovation needs to promote technical progress, economic growth and welfare for all participants.

Stanford Calderwood Professor of Economics, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law.