Peter Drahos
Biographic Data
| ID | 301337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Drahos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Drahos |
| SIGNATURE | DRAHOS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3243-6928 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Prometheus
Prometheus
Prometheus
Prometheus
Prometheus
Responsive Science
Regulatory capitalism depends heavily on science, but science faces epi-stemic critiques and crises of research integrity. These critiques and crises are outlined and then located within capitalism's general tragedy of commodification. Drawing on Marx's insights into the relationship between science, commodity production, and the machine age, the general tragedy of commodification is outlined. From here, the article shifts to discussing some well…
Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy
New intellectual property regimes are entrenching new inequalities. Access to information is fundamental to the exercise of human rights and marketplace competition, but patents are being used to lock up vital educational, software, genetic and other information, creating a global property order dominated by a multinational elite. How did intellectual property rules become part of the World Trade Organization's free trade agreements? How have the…
Improving regulatory capacity to manage risks associated with trade agreements
Modern trade negotiations have delivered a plethora of bilateral and regional preferential trade agreements (PTAs), which involve considerable risk to public health, thus placing demands on governments to strengthen administrative regulatory capacities in regard to the negotiation, implementation and on-going management of PTAs. In terms of risk management, the administrative regulatory capacity requisite for appropriate negotiation of PTAs is di…
Indigenous Peoples' Innovation: Intellectual Property Pathways to Development
As traditional knowledge systems are also innovation systems, this book analyses the relationship between intellectual property and indigenous innovation. The contributors come from different disciplinary backgrounds including law, ethnobotany and science. Drawing on examples from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, each of the contributors explores the possibilities and limits of intellectual property when it comes to supporting inno…
Patents, practical ethics and scientists
Peter Drahos is a Professor in the Regulatory Institutions Network, College of Asia Pacific, Australian National University and holds a Chair in Intellectual Property in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, London University
When cosmology meets property: Indigenous people’s innovation and intellectual property
The protection of traditional knowledge by means of intellectual property rights is one of the major concerns of international organizations. Less attention has been paid to the relationship between systems of indigenous innovation and intellectual property. Using Australia as a case study, the paper argues that indigenous innovation systems are located within a connectionist cosmological framework. The distinctive institutional features of this …
Assessing the impact of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement on Australian and global medicines policy
On 1 January 2005, a controversial trade agreement entered into force between Australia and the United States. Though heralded by the parties as facilitating the removal of barriers to free trade (in ways not achievable in multilateral fora), it also contained many trade-restricting intellectual property provisions and others uniquely related to altering pharmaceutical regulation and public health policy in Australia. The latter appear to have pa…
Pharmaceuticals, intellectual property and free trade: The case of the US–Australia free trade agreement
Australia did poorly in several key areas of the recently completed free trade agreement with the US. It failed to insulate the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) from significant change, and conceded to increased intellectual property standards. The PBS, as a system of effective bargaining with multinational pharmaceutical firms, has been deeply compromised and higher drug prices can be expected over time. The intellectual property chapter str…
Trading in Public Hope
The article distinguishes three categories of hope: private, collective, and public. Public hope is hope that is invoked by political actors in relation to a societal goal of some kind. The article argues that public hope is the most dangerous kind of hope. The argument is developed using the recent history of trade negotiations between the United States and developing countries concerning intellectual property rights as they relate to life-savin…
Une hégémonie de la connaissance: Les enjeux des débats sur la propriété intellectuelle
La performance de l’economie globale du savoir et ses effets en termes de redistribution dependent largement des normes regissant la propriete intellectuelle. Cet article montre comment ces regles ont ete internationalisees par un petit groupe d’individus au cours des annees 1980. Leur strategie etait guidee par une seule idee : il est possible d’imposer a tous les pays les normes americaines regissant la propriete intellectuelle en les incorpora…
When the Weak Bargain with the Strong: Negotiations in the World Trade Organization
When a developing country negotiates with a large developed country it generally faces the problem of unequal bargaining power. Within the context of trade negotiations, forming coalitions is one natural response to this. However, even in multilateral contexts, the sources of bargaining power still operate to advantage the large developed state and developing states do not always gain strength from numbers. The experience of the Uruguay Round, es…
Is Republican Regulatory Law the Answer to Globalization
The Globalisation of Regulation
Global Business Regulation
Across an amazing sweep of the critical areas of business regulation - from contract, intellectual property and corporations law, to trade, telecommunications, labour standards, drugs, food, transport and environment - this book confronts the question of how the regulation of business has shifted from national to global institutions. Based on interviews with 500 international leaders in business and government, this book examines the role played …
Property Rights in Information: The Trade Paradigm
Global Property Rights in Information: The story of TRIPS at the Gatt
The paper tells the story of how the US managed to secure an agreement, which heavily favoured it, on intellectual property at the GATT. This agreement has important implications for global information flows. Understanding this event, the paper argues, will help us to understand some of the mechanisms which operate to bring about global regulatory institutions. Coercion of some kind will be fundamental to the constitution of global regulatory ord…
Information feudalism in the information society
Storytelling about technology can be optimistic or pessimistic. This article tells a pessimistic story based on the assumption that a small number of states will dominate the emerging international regulatory order. The story takes the form of an imagined history of the information society to the year 2015. It is based on research work being undertaken by the author in relation to a funded project on international business regulation. This histor…
Telecommunications and investment in the great supranational regulatory game
Trading in Public Hope
The article distinguishes three categories of hope: private, collective, and public. Public hope is hope that is invoked by political actors in relation to a societal goal of some kind. The article argues that public hope is the most dangerous kind of hope. The argument is developed using the recent history of trade negotiations between the United States and developing countries concerning intellectual property rights as they relate to life-savin…
When the Weak Bargain with the Strong: Negotiations in the World Trade Organization
When a developing country negotiates with a large developed country it generally faces the problem of unequal bargaining power. Within the context of trade negotiations, forming coalitions is one natural response to this. However, even in multilateral contexts, the sources of bargaining power still operate to advantage the large developed state and developing states do not always gain strength from numbers. The experience of the Uruguay Round, es…
The Globalisation of Regulation
Telecommunications and investment in the great supranational regulatory game
Indigenous Peoples' Innovation: Intellectual Property Pathways to Development
As traditional knowledge systems are also innovation systems, this book analyses the relationship between intellectual property and indigenous innovation. The contributors come from different disciplinary backgrounds including law, ethnobotany and science. Drawing on examples from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, each of the contributors explores the possibilities and limits of intellectual property when it comes to supporting inno…
Information feudalism in the information society
Storytelling about technology can be optimistic or pessimistic. This article tells a pessimistic story based on the assumption that a small number of states will dominate the emerging international regulatory order. The story takes the form of an imagined history of the information society to the year 2015. It is based on research work being undertaken by the author in relation to a funded project on international business regulation. This histor…
Responsive Science
Regulatory capitalism depends heavily on science, but science faces epi-stemic critiques and crises of research integrity. These critiques and crises are outlined and then located within capitalism's general tragedy of commodification. Drawing on Marx's insights into the relationship between science, commodity production, and the machine age, the general tragedy of commodification is outlined. From here, the article shifts to discussing some well…
Global Property Rights in Information: The story of TRIPS at the Gatt
The paper tells the story of how the US managed to secure an agreement, which heavily favoured it, on intellectual property at the GATT. This agreement has important implications for global information flows. Understanding this event, the paper argues, will help us to understand some of the mechanisms which operate to bring about global regulatory institutions. Coercion of some kind will be fundamental to the constitution of global regulatory ord…
Information feudalism in the information society
Storytelling about technology can be optimistic or pessimistic. This article tells a pessimistic story based on the assumption that a small number of states will dominate the emerging international regulatory order. The story takes the form of an imagined history of the information society to the year 2015. It is based on research work being undertaken by the author in relation to a funded project on international business regulation. This histor…
Telecommunications and investment in the great supranational regulatory game
Property Rights in Information: The Trade Paradigm
Global Business Regulation
Across an amazing sweep of the critical areas of business regulation - from contract, intellectual property and corporations law, to trade, telecommunications, labour standards, drugs, food, transport and environment - this book confronts the question of how the regulation of business has shifted from national to global institutions. Based on interviews with 500 international leaders in business and government, this book examines the role played …
The Globalisation of Regulation
Is Republican Regulatory Law the Answer to Globalization
When the Weak Bargain with the Strong: Negotiations in the World Trade Organization
When a developing country negotiates with a large developed country it generally faces the problem of unequal bargaining power. Within the context of trade negotiations, forming coalitions is one natural response to this. However, even in multilateral contexts, the sources of bargaining power still operate to advantage the large developed state and developing states do not always gain strength from numbers. The experience of the Uruguay Round, es…
Pharmaceuticals, intellectual property and free trade: The case of the US–Australia free trade agreement
Australia did poorly in several key areas of the recently completed free trade agreement with the US. It failed to insulate the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) from significant change, and conceded to increased intellectual property standards. The PBS, as a system of effective bargaining with multinational pharmaceutical firms, has been deeply compromised and higher drug prices can be expected over time. The intellectual property chapter str…
Trading in Public Hope
The article distinguishes three categories of hope: private, collective, and public. Public hope is hope that is invoked by political actors in relation to a societal goal of some kind. The article argues that public hope is the most dangerous kind of hope. The argument is developed using the recent history of trade negotiations between the United States and developing countries concerning intellectual property rights as they relate to life-savin…
Une hégémonie de la connaissance: Les enjeux des débats sur la propriété intellectuelle
La performance de l’economie globale du savoir et ses effets en termes de redistribution dependent largement des normes regissant la propriete intellectuelle. Cet article montre comment ces regles ont ete internationalisees par un petit groupe d’individus au cours des annees 1980. Leur strategie etait guidee par une seule idee : il est possible d’imposer a tous les pays les normes americaines regissant la propriete intellectuelle en les incorpora…
Assessing the impact of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement on Australian and global medicines policy
On 1 January 2005, a controversial trade agreement entered into force between Australia and the United States. Though heralded by the parties as facilitating the removal of barriers to free trade (in ways not achievable in multilateral fora), it also contained many trade-restricting intellectual property provisions and others uniquely related to altering pharmaceutical regulation and public health policy in Australia. The latter appear to have pa…
Patents, practical ethics and scientists
Peter Drahos is a Professor in the Regulatory Institutions Network, College of Asia Pacific, Australian National University and holds a Chair in Intellectual Property in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, London University
When cosmology meets property: Indigenous people’s innovation and intellectual property
The protection of traditional knowledge by means of intellectual property rights is one of the major concerns of international organizations. Less attention has been paid to the relationship between systems of indigenous innovation and intellectual property. Using Australia as a case study, the paper argues that indigenous innovation systems are located within a connectionist cosmological framework. The distinctive institutional features of this …
Indigenous Peoples' Innovation: Intellectual Property Pathways to Development
As traditional knowledge systems are also innovation systems, this book analyses the relationship between intellectual property and indigenous innovation. The contributors come from different disciplinary backgrounds including law, ethnobotany and science. Drawing on examples from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, each of the contributors explores the possibilities and limits of intellectual property when it comes to supporting inno…
Improving regulatory capacity to manage risks associated with trade agreements
Modern trade negotiations have delivered a plethora of bilateral and regional preferential trade agreements (PTAs), which involve considerable risk to public health, thus placing demands on governments to strengthen administrative regulatory capacities in regard to the negotiation, implementation and on-going management of PTAs. In terms of risk management, the administrative regulatory capacity requisite for appropriate negotiation of PTAs is di…
Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy
New intellectual property regimes are entrenching new inequalities. Access to information is fundamental to the exercise of human rights and marketplace competition, but patents are being used to lock up vital educational, software, genetic and other information, creating a global property order dominated by a multinational elite. How did intellectual property rules become part of the World Trade Organization's free trade agreements? How have the…
Responsive Science
Regulatory capitalism depends heavily on science, but science faces epi-stemic critiques and crises of research integrity. These critiques and crises are outlined and then located within capitalism's general tragedy of commodification. Drawing on Marx's insights into the relationship between science, commodity production, and the machine age, the general tragedy of commodification is outlined. From here, the article shifts to discussing some well…
Prometheus
Prometheus
Prometheus
Prometheus
Prometheus
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