As an exclusionary property right, patents invite their use as a strategic weapon to shape markets and to reap monopoly rents through patent monetization. The increasing variety and global reach of Strategic Patenting strategies pose new and under-researched challenges for the international...

This essay is a very personal homage to Lall's work on technological change and industrialization, in particular his pioneering study on technological capabilities, prepared for the OECD Development Centre (Lall, 1990). I will not seek to add yet another review of Lall's work. Instead, I will...

The Information Technology Agreement (ITA), a pluri-lateral trade agreement, seeks to accelerate and deepen the reduction of trade barriers for the critically important information and communication technology (ICT) industry. ITA thus provides an interesting case study of how tariff reduction...