Op-Ed: Time to rethink intellectual property laws?

January 23, 2009

Patents on scientific knowledge may not be as useful — or valuable — as many claim them to be.

The speed of the global economic collapse is provoking a widespread — many would say belated — realisation that many of the beliefs underlying economic expansion over the past 20 years need close questioning, particularly those involving the relationship between the state and the market. (SciDev)