Falce, Valeria --- "Innovation in the New Technological Industries: Looking for a Consistent Cooperative Model" [2011] ELECD 972; in Arezzo, Emanuela; Ghidini, Gustavo (eds), "Biotechnology and Software Patent Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Biotechnology and Software Patent Law

Editor(s): Arezzo, Emanuela; Ghidini, Gustavo

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849800402

Section: Chapter 2

Section Title: Innovation in the New Technological Industries: Looking for a Consistent Cooperative Model

Author(s): Falce, Valeria

Number of pages: 15

Extract:

2. Innovation in the new technological
industries: looking for a consistent
cooperative model
Valeria Falce

INTRODUCTION

It is a common understanding that the modus procedendi of the techno-
logical progress follows different trajectories.1 Whereas in some industries
the inventive activity leads to stand-alone solutions, in others technical
changes are interdependent.2 In some of the latter, science creates tech-
nique in a continuous feed-back, and in this mutual retroactive exchange3
new technical findings are typically incremental and cumulative. In
others, continuity is not between basic and applied research, but between
each single technical advance realized in the common field of research
which, as a result, has an economic value only in connection with the
others.


1 See R. Nelson and S. Winter, An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change,

Belknap/Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1982, 329; D.
Sahal, Patterns Of Technological Innovation, Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., Advanced
Book Program/World Science Division, 1981; G. Dosi, `Technological Paradigms
and Technological Trajectories: A Suggested Interpretation of the Determinants
and Directions of Technical Change', Res. Pol'y, 1982, 147. On the dynamics of
innovation, please see inter alia V. Falce, Profili pro-concorrenziali dell'istituto
brevettuale, Giuffrè, Milan, 2008, Chapter II.
2 W. Landes defines the chemistry as `the most miscellaneous of industries': W.

Landes, The Unbound Prometheus, 1969, 269. See also M. Bellenghi, `Nuovo pro-
dotto chimico: protezione brevettuale assoluta o limitata all'uso?', Riv. dir. ind.,
1987, I, 183; G. Bergomi, La tutela brevettuale dell'intermedio, ...