Intellectual Property and the New Global Japanese Economy

ISBN-13: 9781138992559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 150 str.

Ruth Taplin;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

This book examines how intellectual property (IP) is used in Japan, and how in recent years it has developed a new approach to IP, borrowed from the US and Europe, stressing the importance of innovation, to revitalise the Japanese economy from the stagnation and deflation that characterised the 1990s.

Spis treści

1. Roots of IP Drive and Economic Globalization  2. Japan as an IP Nation  3. Historical Perspective of the Economy and IP  4. Cross-border IP and Fast Tracking of Patent Applications  5. Changes to the Patent Court and Employee’s Rights to Compensation  6. Changes in Japanese Corporate Governance  7. Future Developments in the Japanese Exchanges  8. Conclusion

O autorze

Ruth Taplin is the author/editor of over 200 articles and 14 books. The most recent are: Exploiting Patent Rights and a New Climate for Innovation in Japan; Valuing Intellectual Property in Japan, Britain and the United States; Risk Management and Innovation in Japan, Britain and the United States; Japanese Telecommunications: Market and Policy in Transition; Outsourcing and Human Resource Management: An International Survey; and Innovation and Business Partnering in Japan, Europe and the United States (the last five also published by Routledge). Professor Taplin has been Editor of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics for 14 years. She is Director of the Center for Japanese and East Asian Studies, which won Exporter of the Year in Trading/Pathfinder in 2000 for the UK. Currently she is a Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London and the University of Leicester, and has been a Visiting Professor and Research Fellow at a number of universities in the UK and abroad.