Knowledge Management and Intellectual Property

Edited by Stathis Arapostathis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and Graham Dutfield, University of Leeds, UK

Contents:

Introduction
Stathis Arapostathis and Graham Dutfield

PART I: INNOVATION CULTURES AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
1. ‘Claim the Earth’: Protecting Edison’s Inventions at Home and Abroad
Paul Israel

2. Managing Invention: Setting the Boundaries of Ownership
Andrea R. Maestrejuan

3. The Photographic Paper that Made Leo Baekeland’s Reputation: Entrepreneurial Incentives for not Patenting
Joris Mercelis

4. Software Piracy: Not necessarily Evil – or its Role in Software Development in Greece
Theodore Lekkas

PART II: INDIVIDUALS, INSTITUTIONS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF INTANGIBLE ASSETS
5. Collective Invention and Patent Law Individualism, 1877–2012 – or, the Curious Persistence of Inventor’s Moral Right
Graham Dutfield

6. Something in the Air: The Post Office and Early Wireless, 1882–1899
Elizabeth Bruton

7. Contested Inventors: British Patent Disputes and the Culture of Invention in the Late Nineteenth Century
Stathis Arapostathis

8. From Colour TV War to Non-Aggression Pact: Patents as Actants of Techno-political Diplomacy in a European Standardization Process
Andreas Fickers

PART III: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND THE INDUSTRY-STATE-ACADEMIA NEXUS
9. Commerce and Academe: American Universities as Hosts of Entrepreneurial Science, 1880–1920
Susan W. Morris

10. Managing Knowledge in ‘Systematised Plant Breeding’: Mendelism and British Agricultural Science, 1900–1930
Berris Charnley

11. Patenting the Atom: The Controversial Management of State Secrecy and Intellectual Property Rights in Atomic Research
Simone Turchetti

PART IV: TECHNO-SCIENCES AND GLOBAL IP REGIMES: FROM HISTORY TO PRESENT CONCERNS
12. The International Patent System and the Ethics of Global Justice
Henk van den Belt and Michiel Korthals

13. Intellectual Property Rights in the Plant Sciences and Development Goals in Agriculture: An Historical Perspective
Niels Louwaars, Bram de Jonge and Peter Munyi

14. Business TRIPS: American Corporations and Patents Head to the Global South, 1950–2010
Eda Kranakis

Index