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Pittard, Marilyn; Monotti, L. Ann; Duns, John --- "Business Innovation and the Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) [2013] ELECD 590

Editor(s): Pittard, Marilyn; Monotti, L. Ann; Duns, John

Title: Business Innovation and the Law

Sub-title: Perspectives from Intellectual Property, Labour, Competition and Corporate Law

Topics: Competition and Antitrust Law; Corporate Law and Governance; Intellectual Property Law; Labour, Employment Law

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 30 April 2013

Number of pages: 528

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781001615

EISBN: 9781781001622

Abstract/Description:

Business Innovation and the Law analyses the topical issue of protecting and promoting business research and development. It does so by examining business innovation through the lens of different legal disciplines – intellectual property, labour and employment laws, competition and corporate laws.

Evaluating the impact of each of these areas using discipline-specific and industry perspectives, the book also explores questions about whether a more harmonized approach is necessary to provide appropriate protection. Approaches of the common law and civil jurisdictions, particularly the European Union, inform and provide guidance to the analysis of emerging issues in this field. This book provides insights into various approaches taken by both common law and civil law jurisdictions regarding the increasingly blurred line of ownership rights in innovative industries. It traverses various disciplines of law as well as jurisdictions.

Using interdisciplinary perspectives to business innovation and inter-jurisdictional comparisons and analysis, this book will appeal to university administrators responsible for intellectual property policy, managers of technology transfer offices in universities, intellectual property lawyers, labour and employment lawyers and competition lawyers.