’The Economics and Management of Intellectual Property’: All chapters available free online

Now all material from Ove Granstrand’s widely cited work is made available free online, which you can find through ResearchGate. Published more than 20 years ago, this work is based on ten years of research on intellectual property and the global transition towards intellectual capitalism with technology-based corporations as prime movers. Focusing on corporate strategies for innovation and IP, this book serves as a complementary companion to the more recently published ‘Evolving Properties of Intellectual Capitalism’.

All chapters can be found through ResearchGate or the links below:

• Preface
• Chapter 1 – From intellectual property to intellectual capitalism
• Chapter 2 – Philosophy and history of intellectual property
• Chapter 3 – Patents and intellectual property: a general framework
• Chapter 4 – The technology-based firm: a general framework
• Chapter 5 – Japanese patenting – an overview
• Chapter 6 – Technology and commercialization strategies
• Chapter 7 – Intellectual property policies and strategies
• Chapter 8 – Intellectual property organization and management
• Chapter 9 – Analysis of patent information
• Chapter 10 – Intellectual capitalism and beyond
• Appendix 1 – Japanese and Swedish corporate patenting – a comparative analysis
• Appendix 2 – The conduct of the questionnaire survey
• Appendix 3 – Interview questionnaires
• Appendix 4 – Approximate confidence limits
• Glossary
• References
• Index of names
• Index of subjects