The Economics of Intellectual Property and Openness: The Tragedy of Intangible Abundance

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
About the author
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Tragedies in economics
	1.1 Economics of scarcity
	1.2 Tragedy of the Commons
	1.3 Tragedy of the Anti-Commons
	1.4 Tragedy of Intangible Abundance
2 What caused the Tragedy of Intangible Abundance
	2.1 Low quality of patents
	2.2 Patent flooding
	2.3 Immeasurable intangible resources
	2.4 Propertisation of intangible assets
	2.5 Intensified complexity of innovation
3 Indications of Tragedy of Intangible Abundance
	3.1 Intellectual property demand and supply mismatch
	3.2 Intellectual property law has become an arms-race field
	3.3 Patent thickets and entry barriers
	3.4 ‘Patent trolls’ (non-practising-entities)
	3.5 Ineffective legal intellectual property protection
4 Toward openness – counteracting the Tragedy of Intangible Abundance
	4.1 Systemic measures
	4.2 Sectoral measures
	4.3 Company prospects: directed diffusion
	4.4 Benefits from directed diffusion
	4.5 Directed diffusion: instruments
Conclusion
Index