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Protection of Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation, and Development

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Knowledge embedded as a proportion of the total value of a product grows by the day in all sectors. Technological development is not only present in industrial goods but also in agricultural processes and in services.

Expert in trade integration topics and coordinator of the ECLAC-United Nations Project on Strengthening Trade Capacities in the Americas. The opinions expressed in this article are the exclusive responsibility of the author and do not necessarily coincide with those of the institution to which he belongs.

The author would like to thank Roberto Jiménez Espinal, of the Master’s Degree Program in Social Policies at the University of Bologna, Italy, for his research support.

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Martínez-Piva, J.M. (2009). Protection of Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation, and Development. In: Martínez-Piva, J. (eds) Knowledge Generation and Protection. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1264-0_2

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