In this paper, the authors discuss the possibility that the North and South may have differing technological needs. Just as the North would like to develop drugs against cancer and heart disease, and the South drugs against tropical disease, so the North's labor saving innovations are less useful in the South, where labor is cheap. Southern patents might promote the development of technologies appropriate to the South that might not have been developed...
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1989/08/31
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS251
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2010/07/01
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Patents, appropriate technology, and North-South trade
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patent protection