by Jeremy de Beer | Nov 18, 2013 | Intellectual Property, Speaking, Speaking Featured, Trade & Development
Parallel imports are not pirated goods nor counterfeit products. Rather, they are genuine articles sold in another country with the authority of the intellectual property rights owner. Parallel imports help to prevent geographic price discrimination. They are one way of encouraging pricing parity across borders, and an essential aspect of free trade....
by Jeremy de Beer | Jul 30, 2013 | Intellectual Property, Technology Innovation, Technology Innovation Featured, Trade & Development, Trade & Development Featured, Writing
How does innovation happen in the informal sector? What appropriation strategies are used to control or distribute social, economic, or technological benefits? To help answer such questions, our analysis connects concepts, definitions and data regarding the informal economy, innovation, and intellectual property in order to establish a framework for further...
by Jeremy de Beer | Jul 30, 2012 | Technology Innovation, Trade & Development, Writing
Governments around the world are betting heavily on biofuels as one part of a solution to a wide range of public policy challenges, from environmental sustainability in the face of climate change, to energy security given rising geopolitical instability, to economic growth especially in rural regions and developing countries....
by Jeremy de Beer | Feb 4, 2012 | Intellectual Property, Trade & Development, Writing
The Canada-EU Trade Environment Technology Exchange, a project led by Jeremy de Beer and Debra Steger Key intellectual property issues being negotiated in the Canada-EU CETA may be hard to implement, given the constitutional law governing Canada’s federal system. In “Implementing International Trade Agreements in Federal Systems” I explain...
by Jeremy de Beer | Dec 15, 2011 | Intellectual Property, Trade & Development, Writing
L’accès au savoir en Afrique Ce livre, L’accès au savoir en Afrique : Le rôle du droit d’auteur, permet de mieux saisir les enjeux juridiques et pratiques que posent les droits d’auteur pour l’accès au matériel didactique en Afrique et cerne les leçons apprises, les politiques et les pratiques...
by Jeremy de Beer | Feb 28, 2011 | Intellectual Property, Technology Innovation, Trade & Development, Writing
Biofuels, by Steve Jurvetson, on Flickr. “Network Governance of Biofuels” promotes a regulation and governance framework for biofuels that, while not necessarily simpler, let alone harmonized, is more coordinated and better rationalized. The analysis in this working paper is presented in two major sections, following a more detailed discussion in...