Innovation Management and the Law - An Institutional Approach

This book examines how value creation is a matter of innovation activities, and these are premised on legal rights that create not only incentives, corporations, and markets, but that more widely signal to market actors what kind of activities that are consistent with policy makers' economic and social welfare objectives.

List of contents

Chapter One. Introduction: The legal basis of markets Chapter Two. Legal institutionalism and the question of legal coding Chapter Three. The patent as legal device Chapter Four. Patents as the legal coding of innovation ideas Chapter Five. The ethics and political economy of intellectual property rights Chapter Six. Law makes markets and market rules, and markets generate innovation: Legal institutionalism and its analytical benefits

About the author

Alexander Styhre is Chair of Management and Organization in the Department of Business Administration of the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Summary

This book examines how value creation is a matter of innovation activities, and these are premised on legal rights that create not only incentives, corporations, and markets, but that more widely signal to market actors what kind of activities that are consistent with policy makers’ economic and social welfare objectives.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Styhre, Styhre Alexander
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032605937
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3260593-7
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Strategic Planning, LAW / Jurisprudence, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Research & Development, Business innovation, Politics & government, Organizational theory & behaviour, business strategy, Research & development management, Politics and government, Jurisprudence & general issues, Organizational theory and behaviour, Jurisprudence and general issues, Research and development management