Intellectual property, competition and growth / edited by Roberto Cellini and Guido Cozzi - Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave MacMillan, 2007 - 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Central issues in contemporary economic theory and policy .

Includes bibliographical references

Intellectual property, competition and growth : an introduction / Roberto Cellini, Guido Cozzi -- Do European computer-related patents increase welfare? / Pia Weiss -- Strategic reasons for patenting : between exclusion and coordination rationales / Antoine Bureth ... [et al.] -- 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.

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Intellectual property--Economic aspects
Competition, International