The global governance of knowledge : patent offices and their clients / Peter Drahos.
"Patent offices around the world have granted millions of patents to multinational companies. Patent offices are rarely studied and yet they are crucial agents in the global knowledge economy. Based on a study of forty-five rich and poor countries that takes in the world's largest and smal...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York, N.Y. :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Summary: | "Patent offices around the world have granted millions of patents to multinational companies. Patent offices are rarely studied and yet they are crucial agents in the global knowledge economy. Based on a study of forty-five rich and poor countries that takes in the world's largest and smallest offices, Peter Drahos argues that patent offices have become part of a globally integrated private governance network, which serves the interests of multinational companies, and that the Trilateral Offices of Europe, the USA and Japan make developing country patent offices part of the network through the strategic fostering of technocratic trust. By analysing the obligations of patent offices under the patent social contract and drawing on a theory of nodal governance, the author proposes innovative approaches to patent office administration that would allow developed and developing countries to recapture the public spirit of the patent social contract"--Provided by publisher |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 351 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511677793 0511677790 0511682271 9780511682278 9780511676581 0511676581 0511739389 9780511739385 1107205050 9781107205055 1282536397 9781282536395 9786612536397 661253639X 0511679041 9780511679049 0511684258 9780511684258 0511680295 9780511680298 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511676581 |
| Language: | English. |