The recently released draft South African Ethics in Health Research Guidelines: Principles,
Processes and Structures (Draft Guidelines) by the National Health Research Ethics Council …

New paradigms such as Open Innovation and User Centred Design as well as User Centred
Open Innovation Ecosystem promote a distributed collaboration approach. However, a …

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the role that formal intellectual property rights (IPR)
play in shaping the downstream demand for knowledge that is initially disclosed through …

Purpose–Recent studies report that China is becoming a leading nation in the quantity of
scientific output, including in the emerging field of nanotechnology. In nanotechnology …

University-based patenting and technology transfer have received considerable attention
due to several extraordinary success stories.'Google, for example, offers a compelling …

Renewed efforts to bring science and technology to the center of economic revival in
developing nations recognize the centrality of the university in the creation and promotion of …

Sensors and other data-gathering devices are ubiquitous in the digitally connected world. In
the agricultural context sensors are increasingly embedded in mobile equipment, such as …

Although Americans enjoy access to a wide range of drugs to treat all types of diseases,
ranging from life-threatening to lifesustaining, numerous serious illnesses exist for which …

Editorial Karytinos & Ingham skew this trend. What is less likely to change is the tendency of
big pharma companies to partner with, or acquire biotechnology IP from small, innovation …

Although the push to get universities to accumulate IP by commercializing their scientific
research was a conscious movement, dealing with the blowback in the form of contracts over …