Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thematic overview : charting the evolution of knowledge flows / Antony Taubman & Jayashree Watal -- The shifting contours of trade in knowledge : the new "trade related" aspects of intellectual property / Antony Taubman -- How digitization is transforming trade / Lee Tuthill, Antonia Carzaniga & Martin Roy -- Intellectual property and digital trade - mapping international regulatory responses to emerging issues / Wolf R. Meier-Ewert and Jorge Gutierrez -- Measuring international intellectual property transactions in a globalized world : current challenges and possible improvements / Joscelyn Magdeleine & Andreas Maurer -- A missing link in the analysis of global value chains : cross-border flows of intangible assets, taxation and related measurement implications / Thomas Neubig & Sacha Wunsch Thomas -- Global ebbs and flows of patent knowledge / Andrew W. Torrance, Jevin. D. West, & Lisa C. Friedman -- Sources of knowledge flow between developed and developing countries / Laurie Ciaramella, Gaétan De Rassenfosse & Florian Seliger -- Using intellectual property data to measure cross-border knowledge flows / Jacob Dubbert, Alexander V. Giczy, Nicholas Pairolero and Andrew A. Toole -- The global digital content landscape / Erick Oh -- Cross-border knowledge flows through R&D FDI : implications for LMMICs / Vito Amendolagine, Cristina Chaminade, José Guimón & Roberta Rabellotti -- The innovation environment and knowledge diffusion : improving policy decisions through patent analytics / Holger Ernst, Carsten C. Guderian & Marco Richter -- Global knowledge flows, absorptive capacity, and capability acquisition : old ideas, recent evidence, and new approaches / Lee Branstetter & Keith E. Maskus -- Trade in intellectual property-intensive goods / Mercedes Delgado and Margaret Kyle -- Knowledge spillovers through international supply chains / Roberta Piermartini & Stela Rubínová -- How do patents shape global value chains? International and domestic patenting / Nikolas J. Zolas & Travis J. Lybbert -- The enforcement of intellectual property rights in a digital era / Michael D. Smith & Rahul Telang -- The digital creative economy and blockchains : options and prospects for the developing world / Keith Nurse, Erica Smith, Kayla Grant & Alicia Shepherd -- Streaming of music and audiovisual works / Mary Lafrance -- Adapting trade rules for the age of big data / Mira Burri -- Trade in knowledge and cross-border flows : a look at emerging digital regulatory issues / Nigel Cory -- Cross-border knowledge flows under International Trade Agreement : a need for new multilateral disciplines? / Lucas Spadano & Luiza Tângari Coelho -- The need for a global framework for knowledge transactions : cross border licensing and enforcement / Jacques de Werra & Jeff C. Dodd -- Fitting machine-generated data in trade regulatory holes / Peter K. Yu -- Looking Forward / Antony Taubman.

"It is now more than 25 years since the WTO TRIPS Agreement entered into force, setting intellectual property (IP) standards at the centre of multilateral trade rules. The quarter-century since then has seen a fundamental transformation in the scale, diversity, and very nature of cross-border commercial transactions in knowledge and knowledge products. An array of technological, economic, social and policy factors has driven this transformation and diversification. The disruptive impact of technological change - the prospects that it brings for sustainable development and for a more equitable world, along with concerns about its potential to displace and disenfranchise, and to entrench inequities - has placed it at the centre of policy debates and practical initiatives about economic and social development, and indeed a host of wider public policy issues today. The framing of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 - a blueprint for international cooperation and national action towards an ambitious set of targets in 2030 - was striking for the high degree of recognition of the need for the development and implementation of new technologies to address fundamental development needs. Innovation, as such, was recognized as a development goal in itself"-- Provided by publisher.