Economics, Law and Intellectual Property

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-6

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2. Prologue

   • Ove Granstrand

   Pages 7-8

3. Innovations and Intellectual Property Studies

   • Ove Granstrand

   Pages 9-40

4. E-Commerce: The Consumer, the Trade Mark and the Credit Card

   • John N. Adams

   Pages 41-54

5. Intellectual property scope

   • Howard C. Anawalt

   Pages 55-75

6. Markets for Technology and Corporate Strategy

   • Ashish Arora, Andrea Fosfuri, Alfonso Gambardella

   Pages 77-108

7. New International Arrangements in Intellectual Property and Competition Law

   • John H. Barton

   Pages 109-121

8. R&D Information Flows and Patenting in Japan and the United States

   • Wesley M. Cohen, Akira Goto, Akiya Nagata, Richard R. Nelson, John P. Walsh

   Pages 123-154

9. Intellectual Property Rights and Academic Health Centers

   • Jeannette Colyvas, Annetine Gelijns, Nathan Rosenberg

   Pages 155-176

10. Initial and Follow-on Pharmaceutical Inventions in Europe

    • Bengt Domeij

    Pages 177-197

11. On the Creation of Fundamental Knowledge: Finding the Right Balance Between the Public And Private Domains

    • Dominique Foray

    Pages 199-221

12. Are We on Our Way in the New Economy with Optimal Inventive Steps?

    • Ove Granstrand

    Pages 223-258

13. On Copyright and Patent Protection for Software and Databases: A Tale of Two Worlds

    • Bronwyn H. Hall

    Pages 259-277

14. Exploring the Tail of Patented Invention Value Distributions

    • Dietmar Harhoff, Frederic M. Scherer, Katrin Vopel

    Pages 279-309

15. Unlocking the Potential of Intellectual Property

    • William Kingston

    Pages 311-329

16. Economics of Patenting an Input Essential to Further Research

    • Bonwoo Koo, Brian D. Wright

    Pages 331-346

17. Is University Patenting Necessary or Sufficient to Make University Research Valuable Economically?

    • Richard R. Nelson

    Pages 347-361

18. Patents as Structural Capital — Towards Legal Constructionism

    • Ulf Petrusson

    Pages 363-394

19. Information Tangibility

    • Margaret Jane Radin

    Pages 395-418

20. Copyright and Cultural Policy for the Creative Industries

    • Ruth Towse

    Pages 419-438

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.

• Forschung & Entwicklung
• International Intellectual Property
• Invention
• Konkursordnung
• Patente
• Policy
• innovation
• science and technology

From the reviews:

"This book consists of some 20 papers given at a symposium … which brought together expert researchers studying the interaction between economic, legal and technological changes in the field of intellectual property (IP). … the editor has done a useful job … . This is a book for economists and lawyers with an interest in IP law and as collection of essays on different facets of IP policy, students in these subjects will no doubt find it useful reading." (David Newton, World Patent Information, Vol. 26, 2004)

• Center for Intellectual Property Studies, Department of Industrial Management & Economics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden

  Ove Granstrand

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