Front Matter -- The Rationale of the System and the Diversity of the Forms of Protection -- How Companies Choose these Tools -- How Effective is the System in Terms of Social Welfare? The Dimensions of the Problem -- How Companies Use Intellectual Property -- What is the Contribution Made to Emerging Forms of Innovation? -- The Main Trends of Intellectual Property Regimes -- A System that is the Victim of its own Success or an Anomaly that should be Remedied? -- Overall Assessment and Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Other titles from iSTE in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This book analyses the various ways in which intellectual property (IP) operates in relation to innovation activity. It reflects on the "classical" issues of the IP system related to the necessity of protecting risky and often costly investments undertaken by firms and others players involved in the innovation process. Beyond this, it stresses the numerous challenges addressed by contemporary technological and societal change, especially in a world where the digital revolution is rapidly transforming the way in which innovation is organized. In this context, the new corporate IP and innovation practices call for responses on the part of public policies.

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