The twentieth century saw the emergence of public funded universities and technical institutions, while technology development was concentrated in the R&D laboratories of large corporations. The age ...

Member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) approved a groundbreaking new treaty relating to intellectual property, genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge on ...

The BBC in the UK published an interesting article last week. The security industry has been beating the drum very loudly about the value of corporate assets vs. value of custodial data and we were ...

‘Knowledge economy’, an economy that creates, manages and uses knowledge for growth, is now attracting more and more attention in Sri Lanka. It is true, as Stanford Economist Professor Paul Romer ...

Indigenous peoples (IPs) and indigenous cultural communities (ICCs), though explicitly protected under the Constitution itself, sadly remain one of the most marginalized and forgotten sectors in ...

What is knowledge management (KM)? Unfortunately, there’s no universal definition of knowledge management (KM), just as there’s no agreement as to what constitutes knowledge in the first place. For ...

Intellectual Property, embodied in patents and other rights, emerged to protect innovative ideas while ensuring public disclosure—a delicate balance between private and public interests. Gone were the ...