Vorwort
Offers insights into what it means to trade in knowledge in today's technological and commercial environment.

Autorentext
Antony Taubman is Director of the Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division of the WTO Secretariat.Jayashree Watal is a former senior officer in the Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division of the WTO Secretariat.

Zusammenfassung
This book offers a fresh understanding of what it means to trade in knowledge in today's technological and commercial environment. It offers insights into the prospects for knowledge-based development and ideas for updated systems of governance that promote the creation and sharing of the benefits of knowledge.

Inhalt

1. Thematic overview: Charting the evolution of knowledge flows Antony Taubman and Jayashree Watal; Part I. Conceptual framework: 2. The shifting contours of trade in knowledge: the new 'trade-related aspects' of intellectual Property Antony Taubman; 3. How digitization is transforming trade Lee Tuthill, Antonia Carzaniga and Martin Roy; 4. Intellectual property and digital trade -mapping international regulatory responses to emerging issues Wolf R. Meier-Ewert and Jorge Gutierrez; Part II. Measuring trade in knowledge: 5. Measuring international intellectual property transactions in a globalized world: current challenges and possible improvements Joscelyn Magdeleine and Andreas Maurer; 6. A missing link in the analysis of global value chains: Cross-border flows of intangible assets, taxation and related measurement implications Thomas Neubig and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent; 7. Global ebbs and flows of patent knowledge Andrew W. Torrance, Jevin D. West, and Lisa C. Friedman; 8. Sources of knowledge flow between developed and developing countries Laurie Ciaramella, Gaétan De Rassenfosse and Florian Seliger; 9. Using intellectual property data to measure cross-border knowledge flows Jacob Dubbert, Alexander V. Giczy, Nicholas Pairolero and Andrew A. Toole; 10. The Global Digital Content Landscape Erick Oh; 11. Cross-border knowledge flows through R&D FDI: Implications for LMMICs Vito Amendolagine, Cristina Chaminade, José Guimón and Roberta Rabellotti; 12. The innovation environment and knowledge diffusion: improving policy decisions through patent analytics Holger Ernst, Carsten C. Guderian and Marco Richter; Part III. Impact of knowledge flows on trade and development: 13. Global knowledge flows, absorptive capacity, and capability acquisition: old ideas, recent evidence, and new approaches Lee Branstetter and Keith E. Maskus; 14. Trade in intellectual property-intensive goods Mercedes Delgado and Margaret Kyle; 15. Knowledge spillovers through international supply chains Roberta Piermartini and Stela Rubínová; 16. How do patents shape global value chains? International and domestic patenting and value-added Trade Nikolas J. Zolas and Travis J. Lybbert; 17. The enforcement of intellectual property rights in a digital Era Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang; 18. The digital creative economy and blockchains: options and prospects for the developing world Keith Nurse, Erica Smith, Kayla Grant and Alicia Shepherd; Part IV. Policy, regulatory and legislative frameworks; 19. Streaming of music and audiovisual works Mary Lafrance; 20. Adapting trade rules for the age of big data Mira Burri; 21. Trade in knowledge and cross-border data flows: a look at emerging digital regulatory issues Nigel Cory; 22. Cross-border knowledge flows under international trade agreements: a need for new multilateral disciplines? Lucas Spadano and Luiza Tângari Coelho; 23. The need for a global framework for knowledge transactions: cross border licensing and enforcement Jacques de Werra and Jeff C. Dodd; 24. Fitting machine-generated data into trade regulatory holes Peter K. Yu; 25. Looking forward Antony Taubman.