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Intellectual Property Measures

 
Anne Fairpo outlines the mesaures relevant to intellectual property in the Pre-Budget Report
 
The Pre-Budget Report doled out a measure of vague promises for IP-related companies and more usefully produced some proposals to deal with the problems that ITEPA introduced for university spin-outs.
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The IP promises centre on R&D: research by the OECD (such as the Science Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2003) has shown a significant link between R&D spending and increased productivity. The Pre-Budget Report indicates that the Government is looking to exploit this link by setting out a Science and Innovation Framework for the next ten years intended to increase R&D spending in the UK from its current 1.9% to 2.5% by...

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