The L&E of Intellectual Property Do We Get Maximum Innovation with the Current Regime?

the evaluation of language related engagment and task related engagment with the purpose of investigating the effect of metatalk and task typology

abstract while task-based instruction is considered as the most effective way to learn a language in the related literature, it is oversimplified on various grounds. different variables may affect how students are engaged with not only the language but also with the task itself. the present study was conducted to investigate language and task related engagement on the basis of the task typolog...

Electronic Publishing and the Evolving International Intellectual Property Regime

Electronic commerce has taken off. Whatever concerns about consumer acceptance there were five years ago have given way to “click and mortar” business models where ecommerce has an established role complementing traditional commerce. The digital publishing market segment, approximately $8 billion today, is expected to reach $70 billion by 2004. A significant portion of the GDPs of the industria...

Intellectual property and price discrimination: Do as you please in the name of innovation?

This paper considers policy towards the exercise of market power by holders of intellectual property rights (IPRs). In particular, we ask whether intellectual property protection should extend to price discrimination. To answer this question, we present a very simple model of IPRs, designed to make clear the trade-offs that face government policy makers in designing IPRs. We find that there are...

The Intellectual Property Regime and its Implications for Knowledge Exchange

Innovation, Intellectual Property, and the Role of External Forces

Innovators must decide on an innovation strategy and how to protect their innovations from potential competitors. While the two decisions are related, they are not identical, and there is no guarantee that changes in the propensity to innovate must be reflected by changes in the propensity to protect. I separate a firm’s innovation and intellectual property (IP) protection decisions and enrich ...