Contents

pp v-vi

List of Abbreviations

pp vii-x

List of Tables and Figures

pp xi-xii

Foreword

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp xv-xxx

Part I - Knowledge Governance: Building a Framework

pp 1-2

1 - Knowledge Governance: An Analytical Approach and its Policy Implications

pp 3-26

2 - From Intellectual Property to Knowledge Governance: A Micro-founded Evolutionary Explanation

pp 27-48

3 - Catching Up and Knowledge Governance

pp 49-78

Part II - Innovation, Competition Policies and Intellectual Property: Institutional Fragmentation and the Case for Better Coordination

pp 79-80

4 - Where Do Innovations Come From? Transformations in the US Economy, 1970–2006

pp 81-104

5 - Antitrust and Intellectual Property: Conflicts and Convergences

pp 105-138

6 - The Politics of Pharmaceutical Patent Examination in Brazil

pp 139-162

Part III - Going Forward: Towards a Knowledge Governance Research Agenda

pp 163-164

7 - Varieties of Latin American Patent Offices: Comparative Study of Practices and Procedures

pp 165-198

8 - An Interoperability Principle for Knowledge Creation and Governance: The Role of Emerging Institutions

pp 199-226

9 - The Search for Alernatives to Patents in the Twenty-First Century

pp 227-269