WHO BENEFITS FROM IP This
Posted by Douglas Sorocco, March 11, 2004 at 4:58 pm
WHO BENEFITS FROM IP
This opinion letter from Botswana in Mmegi Online is an interesting composition about who wins or benefits from strong intellectual property systems, from the standpoint of someone in a lesser developed country ("LDC"). From the article:
?Many countries? economies took off under weak IP systems - Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, even the US and Europe, using strategies of technological imitation. Indeed, some observers believe that ?creative? imitation is a necessary stage in the process of becoming innovative. But developing countries nowadays, in an era of strengthened IP regimes, may not be able to follow this path?.
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