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Further Details Title: Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Condition: New EAN: 9780762311026 ISBN: 9780762311026 Publisher: JAI Press Inc. Format: Hardback Release Date: 04/27/2004 Description: The papers in this volume represent some of the leading work on intellectual property. They address the question of how to create incentives to develop new technologies and how to protect those technologies once developed from theft. They also ask when valuable property might be developed even under weak ownership conditions. Other papers address how firms balance the trade offs in considering costly patent litigation and they examine the antitrust implications. Although issues of intellectual property rights would seem to be ones of interest only to obscure groups of academics and lawyers, they have become topics of everyday discussion among the regular population. Alleged copyright infringements by people downloading music from the internet and accompanying threats of prosecution as well as charges of strategic patenting to harm competitors in recent high profile antitrust cases have placed intellectual property into public and political debate. The incentives provided by secure property rights for promoting research and development, investment, production, and exchange are well known. These are the major arguments for patents, copyrights and other forms of intellectual property. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 234mm Item Length: 156mm Item Width: 19mm Item Weight: 628g Contributor: Gary D. Libecap (Edited by) Author: Gary D. Libecap Genre: Law & Politics Book Series: Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Economic Growth Release Year: 2004 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.