Global sales of intellectual property surged with the rise of the digital economy, with annual transactions rising to $200 billion this year, from $10 billion in 1990, according to Mr. Petri.
The shortage of foreign reading matter has coincided with a surge of intellectual activity.
In many ways, the document is a compendium of the intellectual history of the surge — a history, like Petraeus's own rise within the Army, that begins with the reckonings of Vietnam.
The conference, convened to discuss the surge in intellectual property disputes and litigation, was attended by more than 100 people representing the Chinese government and court system, as well as Internet companies like Baidu, Sina and Taobao.
In just seeing his name, I get this surge of intellectual inspiration as his books have become soul-elevating stories bounded by scientific proof.
Frederick Kagan, one of the "intellectual architects" of the Surge, referred to the visit as the "Gettysburg" of the Iraq War and observed that Bush thought Anbar was "safe enough for the war cabinet of the United States of America to meet there with the senior leadership of the government of Iraq to discuss strategy".
Mr. Ecevit's insular policies and those of his longtime rival, the more conservative Suleyman Demirel, had the effect of sealing Turkey off from many of the intellectual, political and economic trends surging elsewhere.
By mid July, Tristram Hunt, the leading intellectual, sensed that a popular left surge was gripping his party and the leadership debate was in need of shock treatment.
But Greenberg was smart enough to plumb the economic and intellectual foundations of the tea party/evangelical surge.
Cambridge IP, a global innovation and intellectual property firm, says there is a surge of interest and R&D into two new forms of solar power which are likely to be available commercially by the end of this decade.
But a campaign backed by many of Rio's wealthy businessmen and intellectual elites has helped him make a surprising surge in recent weeks.
