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 ...

Member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) approved a groundbreaking new treaty relating to intellectual property, genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge on ...

‘Knowledge economy’, an economy that creates, manages and uses knowledge for growth, is now attracting more and more attention in Sri Lanka. It is true, as Stanford Economist Professor Paul Romer ...

Indigenous peoples (IPs) and indigenous cultural communities (ICCs), though explicitly protected under the Constitution itself, sadly remain one of the most marginalized and forgotten sectors in ...

What is knowledge management (KM)? Unfortunately, there’s no universal definition of knowledge management (KM), just as there’s no agreement as to what constitutes knowledge in the first place. For ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Amy is an ACA and the CEO and founder of ...

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. Gone were the ...