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Granstrand, Ove --- "Intellectual Property Rights for Governance in and of Innovation Systems" [2006] ELECD 374; 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: Chapter 10

Section Title: Intellectual Property Rights for Governance in and of Innovation Systems

Author(s): Granstrand, Ove

Number of pages: 34

Extract:

10. Intellectual property rights for
governance in and of innovation
systems
Ove Granstrand

ABSTRACT

This chapter attempts to look at the role of IPRs in different innovation
systems ­ national, sectoral, corporate, university and military systems ­ in
a governance perspective. The rapid advent of the pro-IP era from the 1980s
on, embedded in the gradual emergence of a new type of economy dominated
by intellectual capital, has generally transformed and strengthened various
IP regimes in these innovation systems, with an increasing use of patent
and licensing oriented regimes.
The availability of enforceable and valuable IPRs together with more
large-scale R&D and complex new technologies, calling for more inter-firm
technology collaborations and various forms of technology trade (through
licences, small firms, services and so on) have fostered quasi-integrated
corporate innovation systems. Seen in a governance perspective the IPR
approach creates governance tools but also governance problems, but so
do other approaches to incentivizing and coordinating innovative activities
as well. A re-evaluation of various approaches is needed, focusing on
both incentivizing and coordinating functions, for sustaining efficient and
effective innovation systems.

Keywords: Technology, Governance, Intellectual Property, Innovation
system, Licensing

For a list of key concepts, see Appendix 10A and a list of abbreviations,
see Appendix 10B.




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1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background

Sustained progress almost by definition requires a sustainable flow of
innovations, that is, new and useful information and things. All currently
known economic systems have difficulties in inducing ...