Intellectual Property Rights

Edited by Birgitte Andersen, Professor of the Economics and Management of Innovation, School of Business, Economics and Informatics, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

Contents:

Introduction
Birgitte Andersen

PART I: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THE GLOBAL COMMONS
1. The Market Economy and the Scientific Commons
Richard R. Nelson

2. Public Interest and the Public Domain in an Era of Corporate Dominance
Fiona Macmillan

3. AIDS, TRIPS and ‘TRIPS Plus’. The Case for Developing and Less Developed Countries
Fabienne Orsi, Mamadou Camara and Benjamin Coriat

PART II: THE RATIONALES FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS REVISITED
4. If ‘Intellectual Property Rights’ is the Answer, What is the Question? Revisiting the Patent Controversies
Birgitte Andersen

5. Why do Small High-Tech Firms Take Out Patents, and Why Not?
Lee N. Davis

PART III: THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PATENTING PROCESS
6. Knowledge Spillovers from the Patenting Process
Jesper Lindgaard Christensen

7. The Determinants of Patentees’ Use of ‘Continuation’ Patent Applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1980–99
Stuart J.H. Graham

PART IV: COORDINATING INSTITUTIONS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS GOVERNANCE
8. Public and Private Institutions in the Governance of Intellectual Property Rights
Eric Brousseau and Christian Bessy

9. The Exploration of Knowledge Networks through Patent Citations
Stefano Breschi, Lorenzo Cassi and Franco Malerba

10. Intellectual Property Rights for Governance in and of Innovation Systems
Ove Granstrand

Index