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Contextualizing Intellectual Property in Innovation Systems Perspective - Workshop organised by Canada Research Chair in Science and Society and The Innovation Partnership (TIP)
20 April 2010
This workshop, held at the European University Institute on March 3-4, 2010 results from two Genome Canada supported projects: Knowledge Management and Global Food Security and VALGEN.
The workshop aims to contextualize the role of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in innovation systems by exploring, among other things, 8 themes that emerged from the soon to be published paper, Floating the Knowledge Management Boat in a Sea of Intellectual Property Rights:
1. Knowledge management is inclusive of intellectual property rights
2. Systems of intellectual property rights are not monolithic, consistent, or perfected
3. Knowledge management strategies dictate the tactics of intellectual property rights
4. Interpreting the purpose of patents is contextualised in knowledge management
5. Knowledge mobilisation versus returns to inventors
6. Patent or perish?
7. Social control of knowledge: intellectual property rights in society
8. No definitive role for patents in the management of knowledge in innovation systems
The ultimate aim is to better understand IPR's relative contribution to creating and sustaining value from new products and services next to aspects such as knowledge management, alternative business models and systems-level features.