Includes bibliographical references and index.

Does patent protection help or hinder technology transfer? / Bronwyn H. Hall -- Channels of technology transfer and intellectual property rights in developing countries / Walter G. Park and Douglas C. Lippoldt -- Patents versus utility models in a dynamic change of an economy : Korea / Keun Lee and Yee Kyoung Kim -- Protecting indigenous knowledge through geographical indications : a case study of the textile industry in India / Suparna Karmakar -- Impact of university scientists on innovations in nanotechnology / Jinyoung Kim, Sangjoon Lee and Gerald Marschke -- Assessing the effects of international research collaboration on invention process : some evidence from Triadic patent data / Sadao Nagaoka and Tsukada Naotoshi -- Empirical analysis of university patenting in Korea / Joonghae Suh -- International patenting and knowledge flows in Latin America / Fabio Montobbio and Valerio Sterzi -- Mexico : Auto industry and patenting in a technological dependent economy / Clemente Ruiz Durán -- Propensity to patent, competition and China's foreign patenting surge / Albert Hu -- The determinants of patenting activities in the Korean firms / Kyoo-Ho Park.