Knowledge Generation and Protection Intellectual Property, Innovatio
The wealth of the most developed nations, and, to a large extent their economic growth, can be explained by the capacities to generate research, create knowledge, appropriate it and transform it into new technologies. The study of the dynamics and contemp
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Knowledge Generation and Protection Intellectual Property, Innovation and Economic Development Knowledge Generation and Protection
Knowledge Generation and Protection
Jorge Mario Martínez-Piva Editor
Knowledge Generation and Protection Intellectual Property, Innovation and Economic Development
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Editor Jorge Mario Martínez-Piva ECLAC, Mexico City Mexico
ISBN 978-1-4419-1263-3 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-1264-0 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1264-0 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009937588 © United Nations 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Springer Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
This book is the English version of the text published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in April 2008 and entitled Generación y protección del conocimiento: propiedad intelectual, innovación y desarrollo económico.1 Since then, the year that has passed has been fraught with uncertainty but has also brought signs of hope. Indeed, the past year was marked by the outbreak of the deepest and most pervasive financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression of 1929, a crisis generated in the United States but whose negative repercussions have spread at a phenomenal rate throughout the planet. The impact of this crisis on the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean will undermine the region’s prospects for economic growth, employment, and poverty alleviation. This was the year in which United States citizens elected Barack Obama as their President, a clear sign of new hope. This hope was tangible at the Fifth Summit of the Americas, held in 2009 in Port of Spain, which marked a turning point in the relations between the countries that make up this hemisphere. The open posture of the United States and that country’s readiness to listen rather than to impose any particular position and its willingness to engage in dialogue on an equal footing were positive signs. Moreover, it was generally admitted that there is not just one model for advancing successfully toward development. Both of these developments are of great significance, bearing in mind that negotiations are now taking place with a view to the signing of free trade agreements between the United States and various Latin American countries. Intellectual p
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