Since the mapping of the human genome and the technical innovations in the field of biotechnology, patent law has gone … legislative acts and judicial decisions, ensuring a fair balance between the interests of patent right holders and third parties … shaping the patent policy on an international level are the patent offices of the United States of America, Japan and the …

The implications of the experience in Europe with telecommunications policy design and broadband Internet development … have become a contested area of policy debate, both in Europe and in other countries. This paper evaluates the manner in … Europe by private interest groups trying to shape public policy in Canada. The analysis highlights the importance of national …

concentrated on the particularity of the situation in the field concerned in Europe in comparison with other parts of the world …; the differences between European countries and regions; the aspects related to the process of building Europe; the needs … networks across Europe; supporting joint research projects associating universities, enterprises and research centres from …