Successful entrepreneurs turn big ideas into successful business opportunities, but how should they protect those ideas? A new paper from North Carolina State University offers a “how-to” guide on intellectual property protection, laying out the options for budding entrepreneurs as they consider how to move forward. “Entrepreneurs often come up with ideas that can...
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In a year of fast-paced reform, 67 regulatory reforms were recorded in 29 of 46 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, finds Doing Business 2010: Reforming through Difficult Times, the seventh in a series of annual reports published by IFC and the World Bank. And for the first time a Sub-Saharan African country—Rwanda—was the world’s top...
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