"Contents" [2006] ELECD 362; in Andersen, Birgitte (ed), "Intellectual Property Rights" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006)

Book Title: Intellectual Property Rights

Editor(s): Andersen, Birgitte

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781845422691

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents

List of contributors vii

Introduction 1
Birgitte Andersen

PART I INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THE
GLOBAL COMMONS

1 The market economy and the scientific commons 17
Richard R. Nelson
2 Public interest and the public domain in an era of corporate
dominance 46
Fiona Macmillan
3 AIDS, TRIPS and `TRIPS plus': the case for developing and
less developed countries 70
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 109
Birgitte Andersen
5 Why do small high-tech firms take out patents, and why not? 148
Lee N. Davis

PART III THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PATENTING PROCESS

6 Knowledge spillovers from the patenting process 179
Jesper Lindgaard Christensen
7 The determinants of patentees' use of `continuation' patent
applications in the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, 1980­99 215
Stuart J.H. Graham

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PART IV COORDINATING INSTITUTIONS OF
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
GOVERNANCE

8 Public and private institutions in the governance of
intellectual property rights 243
Eric Brousseau and Christian Bessy
9 The exploration of knowledge networks through patent
citations 278
Stefano Breschi, Lorenzo Cassi and Franco Malerba
10 Intellectual property rights for governance in and of
innovation systems 311
Ove Granstrand

Index 345