The Economics and Management of Intellectual Property: Towards Intellectual Capitalism (Research Handbooks in Business and Management series) - Softcover

Granstrand, Ove

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184064463X ISBN 13: 9781840644630

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

This unique book - informed by ten years' research - focuses on intellectual property and charts the global transition towards intellectual capitalism with technology-based corporations as prime movers. The book gives a comprehensive overview of the history and fundamentals of intellectual property as well as a textbook introduction to the field.

The book sheds new light on the economics and management of intellectual property in large corporations in Europe, Japan and the US. Special emphasis is given to strategies for the acquisition and commercialization of new technologies, patent strategies and strategies for secrecy and trademark, technology intelligence and corporate management of intellectual property. It includes an in-depth study of leading large corporations in Japan - including Canon, Hitachi, Toshiba and Sony. In conclusion, it explores the possible evolution of intellectual property management towards a distributed intellectual capital management in the context of a wider transition to intellectual capitalism, fueled by new technologies in general and new infocom technologies in particular.

The book will have particular appeal to practitioners such as managers, economists, engineers and lawyers as well as students and scholars of industrial organization, economics of innovation and technical change, and management of technology.

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About the Author

Ove Granstrand, Professor in Industrial Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and Research Fellow at the Institute for Management of Technology and Innovation and Chairman of the Innovation and IP Research Group, www.ip-research.org.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184064463X
• ISBN 13: 9781840644630
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480