[fre] Cet article porte sur la capacité des consortiums de haute technologie à apporter des solutions aux problèmes d’allocation de ressources dans le domaine de l’économie de la recherche et de la production de connaissances. Le cadre théorique est construit sur la base d’une...

The management of knowledge in research consortia raises new appropriability issues, such as copying with the tension between individual protection and data sharing which is required in any process of collective invention. Based on case studies carried out in the field of biotechnology, the...

Procedures of legal opposition to patents in Europe are trials which delimit the extension of intellectual property and markets, and which shape the law. In biotechnology and health, the rate of opposition is traditionally higher, and the opponents more heterogeneous, than in other sectors of...

The book is based on original data and field studies from Brazil, Thailand, India and Sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on the issue of universal and free access to treatment (a goal now taken to heart by the international community), it assesses the progress made and presents a rigorous diagnosis of...

[fre] Tandis que des travaux en économie de la science insistent sur la précarité des contrats de recherche entre l'université et l'industrie, en raison des asymétries d'information auxquelles ils sont soumis et de l'incompatibilité des systèmes d'incitation des deux types d'institutions,...

The Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics is a cutting-edge collection of specially commissioned contributions highlighting not only the broad scope but also the common ground between all branches of this prolific and fast developing field of economics.

The paper addresses two issues. One concerns the general conditions and procedures involved in the emergence of a tool industry. Tool industries emerge and evolve as a collection of capital goods and tool inventors and manufacturers. One of our goals is to use some of the works on historical...

► Explains the context and the motivations for this Special Issue. ► Provides a summary of each paper of the Special Issue. ► Draws on the papers some guidelines for policy design.