The multiple features of intellectual property rights and industrial competition are explored through the analytically rigorous lens of the frontier of the economics literature. The book covers a broad range of issues ranging from industrial espionage to collective property rights in cultural districts.

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ALBERTO BUCCI Università di Milano, Italy ANTOINE BURETH BETA, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg 1, France ROBERTO CELLINI Università di Catania, Italy GUIDO COZZI Università di Macerata, Italy TIZIANA CUCCIA Università di Catania, Italy CHRISTIAN BEN LAKHDAR ESSEC Doctoral Program and University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France RACHEL LEVY Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg 1, France STEFANIA LIONETTI Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy LAURA MARCHEGIANI Università di Macerata, Italy GUSTAVO OLIVIERI Università 'Tor Vergata', Rome, Italy CARMELO PIERPAOLO PARELLO Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium; Università di Viterbo 'La Tuscia', Italy JULIEN PÉNIN Université Loius Pasteur, Strasbourg 1, France ANGELO PIETROSANTI Università di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy WALTER SANTAGATA Università di Torino, Italy; EBLA Centre, Torino, Italy FRANCESCO SCHETTINO Università di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy DAYA SHANKER Deakin University, Victoria, Australia LUCA SPINESI Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium; Università di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy PIA WEISS Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany SANDRINE WOLFF Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg 1, France

Inhalt
Intellectual Property, Competition and Growth; Roberto Cellini & Guido Cozzi Do European Computer-Related Patents Increase Welfare?; Pia Weiss Strategic Reasons for Patenting: Between Exclusion and Co-ordination Rationales; Antoine Bureth, Rachel Levy, Julien Pénin & Sandrine Wolff Open Source Software and Technological Innovation: Competitive Issues; Gustavo Olivieri & Laura Marchegiani Are Patent Litigation Insurances Fit for the Dynamics of Innovation?; Christian Ben Lakhdar Proprietary Information Protection and the Long-Run Implications of Industrial Espionage; Carmelo Pierpaolo Parello The Role of Anti-Spying Acts on R&D Patents Dynamics; Francesco Schettino Is the European R&D Equally Protected from Espionage as is the US R&D? A Note; Guido Cozzi & Angelo Pietrosanti A Schumpeterian Model of Wage Inequality and Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement; Carmelo Pierpaolo Parello & Luca Spinesi An Inverted-U Relationship between Product Market Competition and Growth in an Extended Romerian Model; Alberto Bucci Competition Policy and Prevention of Abuses in the TRIPS Agreement; Daya Shanker Policy Decisions on Collective Property Rights in Cultural Districts: A Positive Model; Roberto Cellini, Tiziana Cuccia & Walter Santagata Different Approaches to the Protection of Individual and Collective Intellectual Property Rights. The Case of Traditional Knowledge; Stefania Lionetti