1013E-Cover:1013E-Cover 12/06/2009 10:35 Page 1 For more information contact the: THE ECONOMICS OF World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) at INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Address: 34, chemin des Colombettes P.O. Box 18 IN SOUTH AFRICA CH-1211 Geneva 20 Switzerland Telephone: +41 22 338 8247 Fax: +41 22 740 3700 e-mail:
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[email protected] Visit the WIPO website at: http://www.wipo.int and order from the WIPO Electronic Bookshop at: WORLD www.wipo.int/ebookshop INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION WIPO Publication No. 1013(E) ISBN: 978-92-805-1794-1 THE ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN SOUTH AFRICA THE ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THE ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN SOUTH AFRICA THE ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN SOUTH AFRICA WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION June 2009 The present publication is the result of a WIPO project on “The Economics of Intellectual Property in South Africa” coordinated by Prof. David Kaplan, under the auspices of the Policy Research in International Services and Manufacturing (PRISM) at the University of Cape Town. Professor Ka- plan was responsible for securing authors for the chapters, providing guidance, writing the first chapter that provides an overall framework for this book and organizing the workshop on the Economics of Intellectual Property that gave rise to this book. The project was coordinated within WIPO by Esteban Burrone and Pushpendra Rai, who supervised the publication, commented on individual papers and wrote the Introduction.