The role of intellectual property rights in biotechnology innovation / edited by David Castle.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Are intellectual property rights quanta of innovation? / J. Adam Holbrook -- Intellectual property rights and innovation systems : issues for governance in a global context / Bjørn Asheim, Finn Valentin and Christian Zeller -- Intellectual property rights policy for gene-related inventions : toward optimum balance between public and private ownership / Koichi Sumikura -- Fundamentals of intellectual property management / Patrick H. Sullivan -- Making a return on R&D : a business perspective / Sharon Oriel -- Looking beyond the firm : intellectual asset management and biotechnology / Karen L. Durell and E. Richard Gold -- Increasing internal value from patents : the role of organizational arrangements / Marc Ingham, Cecile Ayerbe, Emmanuel Métais and Liliana Mitkova -- Language system (LS) 3.0 : an agenda for a model of innovation valuation / Clinton W. Francis -- Measurement of innovation and intellectual property management : challenging processes / L. Martin Cloutier and Susanne Sirois -- Open development : is the 'open source' analogy relevant to biotechnology? / Alan G. Isaac and Walter G. Park -- On the border : biotechnology, the scope of intellectual property and the dissemination of scientific benefits / Christopher May -- On the comparative institutional economics of intellectual property in biotechnology / F. Scott Kieff -- Accessibility of biological data : a role for the European database right? / Jasper A. Bovenberg -- Biotechnology patents, public trust and patent pools : the need for governance? / Timothy Caulfield -- Agricultural biotechnology and trends in the intellectual property rights regime : emerging challenges for developing countries / Sachin Chaturvedi -- The role of intellectual property rights in biotechnology innovation : national international comparisons / Richard Y. Boadi -- Intellectual property, information and divergences in economic development - institutional patterns and outcomes circa 1421-2000 / Ian Inkster -- Watch what you export : the history of medical exceptions from patentability / Tina Piper.

"[This book] consolidates papers orginally presented at a workshop held in the fall of 2005 at the Robert Schumann Centre for International Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy."--Preface.