Economics, Law and Intellectual Property

Prologue.- 1 Innovations and Intellectual Property Studies.- 2 E-Commerce: The Consumer, the Trade Mark and the Credit Card.- 3 Intellectual Property Scope.- 4 Markets for Technology and Corporate Strategy.- 5 New International Arrangements in Intellectual Property and Competition Law.- 6 R&D Information Flows and Patenting in Japan and the United States.- 7 Intellectual Property Rights and Academic Health Centers.- 8 Initial and Follow-on Pharmaceutical Inventions in Europe.- 9 On the Creation of Fundamental Knowledge: Finding the Right Balance Between the Public and Private Domains.- 10 Are we on our Way in the New Economy with Optimal Inventive Steps?.- 11 On Copyright and Patent Protection for Software and Databases: a Tale of Two Worlds.- 12 Exploring the Tail of Patented Invention Value Distributions.- 13 Unlocking the Potential of Intellectual Property.- 14 Economics of Patenting an Input Essential to Further Research.- 15 Is University Patenting Necessary or Sufficient to Make University Research Valuable Economically?.- 16 Patents as Structural Capital — Towards Legal Constructionism.- 17 Information Tangibility.- 18 Copyright and Cultural Policy for the Creative Industries.- 19 Legal Protection of Innovative Technologies: Property or Policy?.- 20 Intellectual Property Rights in the World Economy.- 21 Summary and Reflections upon Further Developments.- Abbreviations.- Index of Subjects.