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The TRIPS waiver proposal: An urgent measure to expand access to the COVID-19 vaccines

De Menezes, Henrique Zeferino - 2021

Despite multilateral commitments and political statements of solidarity and cooperation to guarantee the availability and access to COVID-19 vaccines (and other relevant technologies for control and treatment), the scenario after the beginning of vaccination is marked by the deepening of vaccine...

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What is holding back artificial intelligence adoption in Europe?

Hoffmann, Mia; Nurski, Laura - 2021

advancement often mix up different stages of innovation - research, development and adoption. Each stage is constrained by the …

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The human right to science: From fragmentation to comprehensive implementation?

Larsen, Peter Bille; Pamintuan, Marjorie - 2022

In times when the role of science in society is more debated than ever in polarized, politicized and partial terms, what is the role for the human right to science and rights-based approaches? The right to science remains poorly understood and neglected in both national and global human rights...

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Biometric technologies at work: A proposed use-based taxonomy

Hoffmann, Mia; Mariniello, Mario - 2021

Biometric technologies have in principle the potential to significantly improve worker productivity, security and safety. However, they are also a source of new risks, including exposure to potential personal data abuse or the psychological distress caused by permanent monitoring. The European...

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The impact of the Covid-19 crisis on innovation: First in-sights from the German business sector

Diekhof, Josefine; Krieger, Bastian; Licht, Georg; … - 2021

In 2020, firms expected their innovation expenditures to decrease by about 2% in 2020 compared to 2019. This decline is … much smaller than that in 2009 following the financial crisis, when innovation expenditures fell by 11%. However, smaller … firms with 5 to 99 employees planned to cut their innovation expenditures by 7% to 17 % in 2020. For 2021, firms planned a …

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Determinants and effects of foreign direct investment in Austria: Spillovers to novel innovative environmental technologies

Ghodsi, Mahdi; Jovanovic, Branimir - 2022

This study investigates the determinants of FDI in Austria, as well as their spillovers to innovating technologies, productivity, and employment, using firm-level data, for the period 2008-2018. The findings point out that a decrease in the costs of trade increases investment in foreign-owned...

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Neglected dimension of the inventive step as applied to pharmaceutical and biotechnological products: The case of Sri Lanka's patent law

Fernando, Ruwan - 2023

Apart from the basic statutory definition in section 65 of the Intellectual Property Act of Sri Lanka, there do not appear to be any detailed statutory guidelines or judicial decisions to provide any framework for the assessment of inventive step in Sri Lanka. The current statutory definition is...

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Strategic autonomy and the competitiveness of Europe's innovative pharmaceutical sector: A wake-up call

Erixon, Fredrik; Guinea, Oscar - 2023

region in the world for Research and Development and innovation in the sector - being the location for a majority of R&D and …

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Freeports: What are they, what do we know, and what will we know?

Adam, Stuart; Phillips, David - 2023

the aim of promoting job creation and regeneration, boosting trade, investment and innovation, and supporting the … trade promotion, and additional support for innovation, increasing their attractiveness to both domestic and international …

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The Global Digital Compact: Opportunities and challenges for developing countries in a fragmented digital space

Correa, Carlos María; Ido, Vitor Henrique Pinto; … - 2023

The adoption of a Global Digital Compact (GDC) as one of the outcomes of the Summit of the Future opens up the opportunity to address in a systematic manner issues that are of critical importance for the digital global governance. It also poses a challenge to developing countries, as most of...

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