Perspectives on Commercializing Innovation

by Edited by F. Scott Kieff , Troy A. Paredes

• ISBN13: 9780521887311
• ISBN10: 0521887313
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Intellectual property is a vital part of the global economy, accounting for about half of the GDP in countries like the United States. Innovation, competition, economic growth, and jobs can all be helped or hurt by different approaches to this key asset class, where seemingly slight changes in the rules of the game can have remarkable impact. This book brings together diverse perspectives from the fields of law, economics, business, and political science to explore the ways varying approaches to intellectual property can positively and negatively impact our economy and society. Employing approaches that are both theoretically rigorous and grounded in the real world, Perspectives on Commercializing Innovation is well suited for practicing lawyers, managers, lawmakers, and analysts, as well as academics conducting research or teaching in a range of courses in law schools, business schools, and economics departments, at either the undergraduate or graduate level. This is one of several collaborations between F. Scott Kieff and Troy A. Paredes through the Hoover Project on Commercializing Innovation, which studies the law, economics, and politics of innovation, including entrepreneurship, corporate governance, finance, economic development, intellectual property, antitrust, and bankruptcy. Visit the Project on the web at www.innovation.hoover.org.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Dedication	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Perspectives On Theories Of Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property and the Theory of the Firm	p. 9
A Transactional View of Property Rights	p. 47
The Modularity of Patent Law	p. 83
Forging a New Environmental and Resource Economics Paradigm: The Contractual Bases for Exchange	p. 117
Privatizing the Public Domain	p. 144
Perspectives On The Problems Of Anticommons And Patent Thickets
Engineering ii Deal: Toward a Private Ordering Solution to the Anticommons Problem	p. 179
Understanding the RAND Commitment	p. 211
Embryonic Inventions and Embryonic Patents: Prospects, Prophecies, and Pedis Posseasio	p. 234
Innovation and Its Discontents	p. 268
Perspectives On Finance And Commercialization
Patents as Options	p. 303
Access to Finance and the Technological Innovation: A Historical Experiment	p. 327
The Decline of the Independent Inventor: A Schumpeterian Story?	p. 359
Perspectives On The University Innovation
University Software Ownership and Litigation: A First Examination	p. 395
The Impact of the Bayh-Dole Act on Genetic Research and Development: Evaluating the Arguments and Empirical Evidence to Date	p. 435
Patents, Material Transfers, and Access to Research Inputs in Biomedical Research	p. 489
Are Universities Patent Trolls?	p. 531
Perspectives On International Considerations
Successful Factors for Commercializing the Results of Research and Development in Emerging Economies - A Preliminary Study of ITRI in Taiwan	p. 549
Commercializing University Research: Beyond Economic Incentives	p. 560
	p. 577
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