Chinese copycats: pirates or hero innovators?

A note from Erica:
Here’s an interesting departure from our regularly scheduled blogging about the environment and the Olympics, which often dominates the coverage here on RespChi.
Beijing-based blogger Van Yang writes about CSR in the context of intellectual property rights, something which I briefly mentioned last year, in response to an article by Cornell University Matt [...]

Cornell student: ‘IP is Green’

Heard it from IP Dragon:
Matt Perkins, who studies sustainable energy and Chinese at Cornell University, writes this post, “Intellectual Property is Green,” on his blog for The Cornell Daily Sun:
a critical component of solving China’s environmental issues (and protecting both the U.S.’s and China’s economic vitality), is greater IP enforcement.
Read the full article here.

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Happy shout-out to me!

IP Dragon was kind enough to write a post about my blog today.
IP Protection in China Challenge Peanuts Compared to China’s Environmental Challenge, Though Parallels Abound
So basically, the work that I’m trying to accomplish–spreading information about China’s environment–is really important. But, as IP Dragon wisely points out, environmental issues do not exist in isolation (just [...]