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:IntroductionDavid CastlePART I: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN INNOVATION SYSTEMS1. IntroductionDavid Castle1. Are Intellectual Property Rights Quanta of Innovation?J. Adam Holbrook2. Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation Systems: Issues for Governance in a Global ContextBjørn Asheim, Finn Valentin and Christian Zeller3. Intellectual Property Rights Policy for Gene-Related Inventions – Toward Optimum Balance Between Public and Private OwnershipKoichi SumikuraPART II: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT IN BIOTECHNOLOGYIntroductionKaren L. Durell4. Fundamentals of Intellectual Property ManagementPatrick H. Sullivan5. Making a Return on R&D: A Business PerspectiveSharon Oriel6. Looking Beyond the Firm: Intellectual Asset Management and BiotechnologyKaren L. Durell and E. Richard GoldPART III: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN RELATION TO OTHER MEASURES OF INNOVATIONIntroductionL. Martin Cloutier and David Castle7. Increasing Internal Value from Patents: The Role of Organizational ArrangementsMarc Ingham, Cecile Ayerbe, Emmanuel Métais and Liliana Mitkova8. Language System (LS) 3.0: An Agenda for a Model of Innovation ValuationClinton W. Francis9. Measurement of Innovation and Intellectual Property Management: Challenging ProcessesL. Martin Cloutier and Susanne SiroisPART IV: BEYOND PATENT LENGTHIntroductionAmy J. Glass and Fabricio X. Nunez10. Open Development: Is the ‘Open Source’ Analogy Relevant to Biotechnology?Alan G. Isaac and Walter G. Park11. On the Border: Biotechnology, the Scope of Intellectual Property and the Dissemination of Scientific BenefitsChristopher May12. On the Comparative Institutional Economics of Intellectual Property in BiotechnologyF. Scott KieffPART V: INNOVATION GOVERNANCEIntroductionTania Bubela13. Accessibility of Biological Data: A Role for the European Database Right?Jasper A. Bovenberg14. Biotechnology Patents, Public Trust and Patent Pools: The Need for Governance?Timothy Caulfield15. Agricultural Biotechnology and Trends in the Intellectual Property Rights Regime: Emerging Challenges for Developing CountriesSachin ChaturvediPART VI: NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL AND HISTORICAL COMPARISONSIntroductionAbdallah S. Daar and David Castle16. The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Biotechnology Innovation: National and International ComparisonsRichard Y. Boadi17. Intellectual Property, Information and Divergences in Economic Development – Institutional Patterns and Outcomes circa 1421–2000Ian Inkster18. Watch What You Export: The History of Medical Exceptions from PatentabilityTina PiperIndex

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