The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Biotechnology Innovation

Edited by David Castle, Professor of Public Administration and Vice President Research, University of Victoria, Canada

Contents:

Introduction
David Castle

PART I: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN INNOVATION SYSTEMS
1. Introduction
David Castle

1. Are Intellectual Property Rights Quanta of Innovation?
J. Adam Holbrook

2. Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation Systems: Issues for Governance in a Global Context
Bjørn Asheim, Finn Valentin and Christian Zeller

3. Intellectual Property Rights Policy for Gene-Related Inventions – Toward Optimum Balance Between Public and Private Ownership
Koichi Sumikura

PART II: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Introduction
Karen L. Durell

4. Fundamentals of Intellectual Property Management
Patrick H. Sullivan

5. Making a Return on R&D: A Business Perspective
Sharon Oriel

6. Looking Beyond the Firm: Intellectual Asset Management and Biotechnology
Karen L. Durell and E. Richard Gold

PART III: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN RELATION TO OTHER MEASURES OF INNOVATION
Introduction
L. Martin Cloutier and David Castle

7. Increasing Internal Value from Patents: The Role of Organizational Arrangements
Marc Ingham, Cecile Ayerbe, Emmanuel Métais and Liliana Mitkova

8. Language System (LS) 3.0: An Agenda for a Model of Innovation Valuation
Clinton W. Francis

9. Measurement of Innovation and Intellectual Property Management: Challenging Processes
L. Martin Cloutier and Susanne Sirois

PART IV: BEYOND PATENT LENGTH
Introduction
Amy J. Glass and Fabricio X. Nunez

10. Open Development: Is the ‘Open Source’ Analogy Relevant to Biotechnology?
Alan G. Isaac and Walter G. Park

11. On the Border: Biotechnology, the Scope of Intellectual Property and the Dissemination of Scientific Benefits
Christopher May

12. On the Comparative Institutional Economics of Intellectual Property in Biotechnology
F. Scott Kieff

PART V: INNOVATION GOVERNANCE
Introduction
Tania Bubela

13. Accessibility of Biological Data: A Role for the European Database Right?
Jasper A. Bovenberg

14. Biotechnology Patents, Public Trust and Patent Pools: The Need for Governance?
Timothy Caulfield

15. Agricultural Biotechnology and Trends in the Intellectual Property Rights Regime: Emerging Challenges for Developing Countries
Sachin Chaturvedi


PART VI: NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL AND HISTORICAL COMPARISONS
Introduction
Abdallah S. Daar and David Castle

16. The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Biotechnology Innovation: National and International Comparisons
Richard Y. Boadi

17. Intellectual Property, Information and Divergences in Economic Development – Institutional Patterns and Outcomes circa 1421–2000
Ian Inkster

18. Watch What You Export: The History of Medical Exceptions from Patentability
Tina Piper

Index