Padmashree Gehl Sampath

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how combining global value chain and innovation system approaches can help to foster an understanding of the possible trajectories that learning and innovation may take in developing countries, and find that, in some cases, there is an improvement in local innovation capabilities with potentially positive effects on overall competitiveness, while in others there is little progress or even a loss of previous innovation capacity.

TL;DR: Innovation has been recognized as a major source of modern productivity growth and constitutes a central process of economic advance in the present advanced industrial and in the most recent past as well, in the more dynamic developing countries as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In the pharmaceutical industry, patent protection guarantees profits to inventors in return for investing in the production of socially useful information by way of a temporary monopoly on the product as discussed by the authors, which can prohibit all others from copying the patented product and offering it in the market for a lower price, during the life of the patent.

TL;DR: Focusing on the economics of contracts, this book shows that the rights exchanged are complementary at each stage of drug discovery and the development of genetic resources.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how successful innovation systems interact with trade and global value chains (GVC) participation to foster learning and technological upgrading and conclude that the ability to technologically diversify across export categories is linked to stronger innovation systems, as measured by national capability indicators.