The twentieth century saw the emergence of public funded universities and technical institutions, while technology development was concentrated in the R&D laboratories of large corporations. The age ...

For decades, management scholars and practitioners have grappled with what I call the "knowledge problem" in organizations—the stubborn difficulty of codifying and transferring expertise that resides ...

Intellectual property and knowledge management professionals have a shared interest in managing a company's intellectual assets. Yet, in most organisations, there is minimal interaction between the ...

Arguments for intellectual diversity on the grounds of demographic representativeness do not get to the heart of higher ...

The problem of “biopiracy” – the misappropriation and patenting for profit of Indigenous knowledge – has been on the rise for some time. So a global treaty aimed at protecting traditional knowledge ...

At the ninth session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore at WIPO in Geneva, the South African Minister for Science and ...

Intellectual Property, embodied in patents and other rights, emerged to protect innovative ideas while ensuring public disclosure—a delicate balance between private and public interests. In this phase ...