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Asheim, Bjørn; Valentin, Finn; Zeller, Christian --- "Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation Systems: Issues for Governance in a Global Context" [2009] ELECD 481; in Castle, David (ed), "The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Biotechnology Innovation" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009)

Book Title: The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Biotechnology Innovation

Editor(s): Castle, David

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781847209801

Section: Chapter 2

Section Title: Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation Systems: Issues for Governance in a Global Context

Author(s): Asheim, Bjørn; Valentin, Finn; Zeller, Christian

Number of pages: 36

Extract:

2. Intellectual property rights and
innovation systems: issues for
governance in a global context
Bjørn Asheim, Finn Valentin and
Christian Zeller

INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS AN INNOVATION
SYSTEM?

This chapter deals with IPRs in innovation systems. Even if both innova-
tion systems and IPRs as such have been studied extensively, the specific
problematic of this chapter has hardly been analysed before. This is even
more surprising as the form and extent of IPR regulations potentially
have big impacts on the functioning of an innovation system. According
to Granstrand (2005), `IPRs, particularly patents, play several important
roles in innovation systems ­ to encourage innovation and investment in
innovation, and to encourage dissemination (diffusion) of information
about the principles and sources of innovation throughout the economy'
(Granstrand 2005, p. 280). Thus, the extent, intensity and type of inter-
actions between firms and universities, which represent the constituting
relations of an innovation system, will obviously be affected by the way
the IPRs are constructed. This is especially the case in science driven
activities, such as biotech, which is the focus of this book, being the object
of the majority of implemented IPR regulations. This chapter will inves-
tigate this problematic through a comparative approach, looking at how
IPRs are implemented and their consequences for industry­university
collaboration in the US and Europe, with a special focus on Germany,
Switzerland and Denmark. While the analyses of the US and Germany
and Switzerland give a general account of changes in the IPR regimes, the
section on ...