New book: The Role Of Intellectual Property Rights In Biotechnology Innovation

Edited by David Castle, Canada Research Chair in Science, Faculty of
Arts and Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada

2009, 480 pp Hardback, 978 1 84720 980 1, £110.00 (on-line discount £99.00)

Intellectual property rights (IPRs), particularly patents, occupy a
prominent position in innovation systems, but to what extent they
support or hinder innovation is widely disputed. Through the lens of
biotechnology, this book delves deeply into the main issues at the
crossroads of innovation and IPRs to evaluate claims of the positive and
negative impacts of IPRs on innovation.

An international group of scholars from a range of disciplines –
economic geography, health law, business, philosophy, history, public
health, management – examine how IPRs actually operate in innovation
systems, not just from the perspective of theory but grounded in their
global, regional, national, current and historical contexts. In so
doing, the contributors seek to uncover and move beyond deeply held
assumptions about the role of IPRs in innovation systems.

Scholars and students interested in innovation, science and technology
policy, intellectual property rights and technology transfer will find
this volume of great interest. The findings will also be of value to
decision makers in science and technology policy and managers of
intellectual property in biotechnology and venture capital firms.

Contributors: B. Asheim, C. Ayerbe, R.Y. Boadi, J.A. Bovenberg, T.
Bubela, D. Castle, T. Caulfield, S. Chaturvedi, L.M. Cloutier, L.M.
Cloutier, A.S. Daar, K.L. Durell, C.W. Francis, A.J. Glass, E.R. Gold,
J.A. Holbrook, M. Ingham, I. Inkster, A.G. Isaac, F.S. Kieff, C. May, E.
Métais, L. Mitkova, F.X. Nunez, S. Oriel, W.G. Park, T. Piper, S.
Sirois, P.H. Sullivan, K. Sumikura, F. Valentin, C. Zeller

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