Introduction : debating IPRs by Meir Perez Pugatch 1
1 A critical analysis of the TRIPS agreement by Michael Blakeney 17
2 The TRIPS agreement : the damage of the WTO by Brian Hindley 33
3 Can stronger intellectual property rights boost trade, foreign direct investment and licensing in developing countries? by Douglas Lippoldt 44
4 The enforcement of intellectual property rights : an EU perspective of a global question by Paul Vandoren and Pedro Velasco Martins 62
5 What is an idea worth? by Richard P. Rozek and George G. Korenko 81
6 Intellectual property policies and scale neutrality : strategic management implications for SMEs by Grant E. Isaac 103
7 Encouraging cooperation among the academic, government and private sectors in US biomedical R&D by Richard P. Rozek and Bridget A. Dickensheets 118
8 University technology transfer policy matters : is it time for a 'Bayh-Dole Modernization Act? by Robin J. R. Blatt 139
9 Pharmaceutical innovation and intellectual property rights : a global public good? by David Goren 159
10 The realities of TRIPS, patents and access to medicines in developing countries by Eric Noehrenberg 170
11 Patenting genes by Trevor Cook 187
12 Balancing intellectual property rights and competition law in a dynamic, knowledge-based European economy by Duncan Curley 213
13 Technology, time and market forces : the stakeholders in the Kazaa era by Uma Suthersanen 230
14 Author's rights and internet regulation : the end of the public domain or constitutional re-conceptualization? by Guido Westkamp 268
15 Geographical indications and TRIPS by Michael Blakeney 293
16 The treatment of geographical indications in recent regional and bilateral free trade agreements by David Vivas Eugui and Christoph Spennemann 305
17 Geographic indications, trade and the functioning of markets by Phil Evans