The WTO and WIPO have in the first 10 years of this century seemed like less favorable venues for increasing IP standards and enforcement. This resulted in a shift of focus by a number of industrialized countries, which still wanted to achieve higher standards but in bilateral and regional free...

The rapid changes in technologies that are used for R&D have created new opportunities and needs for strategic management of IPRs and knowledge, especially when used in a collaborative context. The use of new ICT technologies is fundamentally altering the way R&D is done. This is leading to a...