Intellectual Property Rights is cutting edge in addressing current debates affecting businesses, industry sectors and society today, and in focusing not only on the enabling welfare effects of IPR systems, but also on some of the possible adverse effects of IPR systems.

This important new book offers a unique understanding of the problematic methodology underpinning services productivity measurements. The authors emphasize how conventional analysis is not able to capture the important economic impact and role of services to the economy, and provide an in-depth,...