Mtima, Lateef --- "Intellectual Property, Entrepreneurship and Social Justice" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015) [2015] ELECD 267

Editor(s): Mtima, Lateef

Title: Intellectual Property, Entrepreneurship and Social Justice

Sub-title: From Swords to Ploughshares

Series: Elgar Law and Entrepreneurship series

Topics: Social Entrepreneurship; Intellectual Property Law; Law and Society

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 27 February 2015

Number of pages: 320

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783470242

EISBN: 9781783470259

Abstract/Description:

In the Information Age, historically marginalized groups and developing nations continue to strive for socio-economic empowerment within the global community. Their ultimate success largely depends upon their ability to develop, protect, and exploit their greatest natural resource: intellectual property.

Through an exploration of the techniques used in social entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property, Entrepreneurship and Social Justice provides a framework by which historically marginalized communities and developing nations can cooperate with the developed world to establish a socially cohesive global intellectual property order. The knowledgeable contributors discuss, in four parts, topics surrounding entrepreneurship and empowerment, education and advocacy, engagement and activism and, finally, commencement.

Experts in the field, scholars, law professors and students of intellectual property, human rights and international trade and development will find this book to be both thought-provoking and a valuable resource.