Economics, Law and Intellectual Property: Seeking Strategies for Research and Teaching in a Developing Field

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Ove Granstrand
Springer Science & Business Media, 2003 M11 30 - 568 pages
Intellectual property has rapidly become one of the most important, as well as most controversial, subjects in recent years amongst productive thinkers of many kinds all over the world. Scientific work and technological progress now depend largely on questions of who owns what, as do the success and profits of countless authors, artists, inventors, researchers and industrialists. Economic, legal and ethical issues play a central role in the increasingly complex balance between unilateral gains and universal benefits from the "knowledge society". Economics, Law and Intellectual Property explores the field in both depth and breadth through the latest views of leading experts in Europe and the United States. It provides a fundamental understanding of the problems and potential solutions, not only in doing practical business with ideas and innovations, but also on the level of institutions that influence such business. Addressing a range of readers from individual scholars to company managers and policy makers, it gives a unique perspective on current developments.
 

Contents

Preface
3
Innovations and Intellectual Property Studies
9
The Consumer the Trade Mark and the Credit Card
41
Markets for Technology and Corporate Strategy
77
New International Arrangements in Intellectual Property
109
RD Information Flows and Patenting in Japan
123
Intellectual Property Rights and Academic Health Centers
155
Initial and Followon Pharmaceutical Inventions in Europe
177
Unlocking the Potential of Intellectual Property
311
14
331
Is University Patenting Necessary or Sufficient to Make University
347
Patents as Structural Capital Towards Legal Constructionism
363
Copyright and Cultural Policy for the Creative Industries
419
Property or Policy?
439
Intellectual Property Rights in the World Economy
489
Summary and Reflections upon Further Developments
519

Finding the Right
199
Are we on our Way in the New Economy with Optimal Inventive Steps?
223
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279
Abbreviations
563
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