Introduction&Birgitte Andersen 1
PART Ⅰ INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THE GLOBAL COMMONS 17
1 The market economy and the scientific commons&Richard R.Nelson 17
2 Public interest and the public domain in an era of corporate dominance&Fiona Macmillan 46
3 AIDS, TRIPS and ‘TRIPS plus’： the case for developing and less developed countries&Fabienne Orsi, Mamadou Camara and Benjamin Coriat 70
PART Ⅱ THE RATIONALES FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS REVISITED 109
4 If ‘intellectual property rights’ is the answer, what is the question? Revisiting the patent controversies&Birgitte Andersen 109
5 Why do small high-tech firms take out patents, and why not?&Lee N.Davis 148
PART Ⅲ THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PATENTING PROCESS 179
6 Knowledge spillovers from the patenting process&Jesper Lindgaard Christensen 179
7 The determinants of patentees’ use of ‘continuation’ patent applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1980-99&Stuart J.H.Graham 215
PART Ⅳ COORDINATING INSTITUTIONS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS GOVERNANCE 243
8 Public and private institutions in the governance of intellectual property rights&Eric Brousseau and Christian Bessy 243
9 The exploration of knowledge networks through patent citations&Stefano Breschi, Lorenzo Cassi and Franco Malerba 278
10 Intellectual property rights for governance in and of innovation systems&Ove Granstrand 311
Index 345