Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- PART I International Provision of Public Goods under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime
- 1 The Globalization of Private Knowledge Goods and the Privatization of Global Public Goods
- 2 The Regulation of Public Goods
- Comment: Norms, Institutions, and Cooperation
- 3 Distributive Values and Institutional Design in the Provision of Global Public Goods
- 4 Koyaanisqatsi in Cyberspace: The Economics of an “Out-of-Balance” Regime of Private Property Rights in Data and Information
- 5 Linkages Between the Market Economy and the Scientific Commons
- Comment I: Public Goods and Public Science
- 6 Sustainable Access to Copyrighted Digital Information Works in Developing Countries
- 7 Agricultural Research and Intellectual Property Rights
- Comment II: Using Intellectual Property Rights to Preserve the Global Genetic Commons: The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- PART II Innovation and Technology Transfer in a Protectionist Environment
- PART III Sectoral Issues: Essential Medicines and Traditional Knowledge
- PART IV Reform and Regulation Issues
- Index
3 - Distributive Values and Institutional Design in the Provision of Global Public Goods
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- PART I International Provision of Public Goods under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime
- 1 The Globalization of Private Knowledge Goods and the Privatization of Global Public Goods
- 2 The Regulation of Public Goods
- Comment: Norms, Institutions, and Cooperation
- 3 Distributive Values and Institutional Design in the Provision of Global Public Goods
- 4 Koyaanisqatsi in Cyberspace: The Economics of an “Out-of-Balance” Regime of Private Property Rights in Data and Information
- 5 Linkages Between the Market Economy and the Scientific Commons
- Comment I: Public Goods and Public Science
- 6 Sustainable Access to Copyrighted Digital Information Works in Developing Countries
- 7 Agricultural Research and Intellectual Property Rights
- Comment II: Using Intellectual Property Rights to Preserve the Global Genetic Commons: The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- PART II Innovation and Technology Transfer in a Protectionist Environment
- PART III Sectoral Issues: Essential Medicines and Traditional Knowledge
- PART IV Reform and Regulation Issues
- Index
Summary
Introduction
Two interrelated issues are woven through the chapters in this volume. The first is the issue of institutional design: how should we structure the institutions that make international intellectual property law? To address this issue, we must ask such key questions as who should be invited to participate in the system; what norms, rewards, and ideals determine their incentives; what resources are they given; and what goals do they seek? The second issue relates directly to the goals of the international intellectual property system – in particular, we must decide what mix of efficiency and distributive goals we want the system to pursue. These two issues are interrelated because institutional design determines whether specified goals can be met; the output of any institutional process is very much related to the process itself. We must therefore consider how we can design institutions to ensure a good match between institutional capabilities and institutional goals.
As many of the contributions to this volume suggest, distributive issues are embedded in decisions about the provision of public goods, including decisions about the provision of public knowledge goods on a global basis. The problem, in a nutshell, is this: because intellectual property systems use markets to allocate access to intellectual property, how might policymakers design intellectual property systems to ensure that those who lack the wherewithal to use the market have access to knowledge goods?
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- International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime , pp. 69 - 78Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005