Intellectual property rights : innovation, governance and the institutional environment / edited by Birgitte Andersen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The market economy and the scientific commons / Richard R. Nelson -- Public interest and the public domain in an era of corporate dominance / Fiona Macmillan -- AIDS, TRIPS and 'TRIPS plus' : the case for developing and less developed countries / Fabienne Orsi, Mamadou Camara and Benjamin Coriat -- If 'intellectual property rights' is the answer, what is the question? Revisiting the patent controversies / Birgitte Andersen -- Why do small high-tech firms take out patents, and why not? / Lee N. Davis -- Knowledge spillovers from the patenting process / Jesper Lindgaard Christensen -- The determinants of patentees' use of 'continuation' patent applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1980-99 / Stuart J.H. Graham -- Public and private institutions in the governance of intellectual property rights / Eric Brousseau and Christian Bessy -- The exploration of knowledge networks through patent citations / Stefano Breschi, Lorenzo Cassi and Franco Malerba -- Intellectual property rights for governance in and of innovation systems / Ove Granstrand.