Intellectual Property, Innovation and Economic Inequality

While growing disparities in wealth and income are well-documented across the globe, the role of intellectual property rights is often overlooked. This volume brings together leading commentators from around the world to interrogate the interrelationship between intellectual property and economic inequality. Interdisciplinary and globally oriented by design, the book features economists, legal scholars, policy analysts, and other experts. Chapters address the impact of intellectual property rights on economic inequality, the effect of economic inequality on the protection and enforcement of these rights, and the potential use of innovation law and policy to help reduce economic inequality. The volume also tackles timely issues such as race and gender disparities and the North–South divide in innovation. This book is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Daniel Benoliel is Professor of Law at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law and Director of the Haifa Center of Law and Technology.

Peter K. Yu is Regents Professor of Law and Communication and Director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas A&M University.

Francis Gurry is an Australian lawyer who served as the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization from 2008 to 2020.

Keun Lee is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Seoul National University. He is also a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), an editor of Research Policy, and a regular writer for Project Syndicate.