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1 - Intellectual Property and the Innovation Cycle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Michael A. Gollin
Affiliation:
Venable LLP, Washington DC
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This first part of the book includes three chapters about intellectual property dynamics in society. Chapter 1 begins with a description of innovation as a force of creative destruction and then provides a brief history, asking the question of why people innovate. This chapter introduces the concept of the innovation cycle, with its three stages: individual creativity, social adoption, and access to knowledge. IP laws and practices affect each stage. First, IP laws provide incentives that strengthen the individual's will to create. Second, the exclusivity that defines intellectual property rights allows groups to share and invest in developing the creative works of individuals within their innovative communities, and to control the dissemination of those works more broadly in society. Third, the exclusivity of IP rights is limited, so that creative individuals and communities can access the innovations of others, and the innovation cycle can go forward. Intellectual property thus captures and channels and shapes innovation, ideally linking individual inspiration with collective labor and balancing the rights of creators against the rights of others. The chapter concludes by noting the dark side of innovation, and limits on the role of intellectual property.

INNOVATION AND CREATIVE DESTRUCTION

Innovation is a powerful force of human nature. Innovation creates new businesses, cultural movements, and social institutions, and destroys, replaces, or leaves behind the old ones. Innovation feeds on the known and converts it into the new.

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Driving Innovation
Intellectual Property Strategies for a Dynamic World
, pp. 11 - 21
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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