Innovators, Firms, and Markets : The Organizational Logic of Intellectual Pro...
by Jonathan M. Barnett
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Innovators, Firms, and Markets : The Organizational Logic of Intellectual Property, Hardcover by Barnett, Jonathan M., ISBN 0190908599, ISBN-13 9780190908591, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "This book presents a theoretical, historical and empirical account of the relationship between intellectual property rights, organizational type and market structure. Patents expand transactional choice by enabling smaller R&D-intensive firms to competeagainst larger firms that wield difficult-to-replicate financing, production and distribution capacities. In particular, patents enable upstream firms that specialize in innovation to exchange informational assets with downstream firms that specialize incommercialization, lowering capital and technical requirements that might otherwise impede entry. These theoretical expectations track a novel organizational history of the . patent system during 1. Periods of strong patent protection tend to support innovation ecosystems in which smaller innovators can monetize R&D through financing, licensing and other relationships with funding and commercialization partners. Periods of weak patent protection tend to support innovation ecosystems in which innovation and commercialization mostly take place within the end-to-end structures of large integrated firms. The proposed link between IP rights and organizational type tracks evidence on historical and contemporary patterns in IP lobbying and advocacy activities. In general, larger and more in
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Year: 2021
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9780190908591
- Condition: Fine
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