1st Edition
Innovation Management and the Law An Institutional Approach
By Alexander Styhre
Copyright 2025
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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In economic theory and in management studies, innovation is widely regarded as the motor of economic activities and as being the primary source of renewal in the economic system. This view emphasizes how innovation work is organized in specialized teams inside the firm, or, alternatively, located to start-ups and similar small ventures that are strongly incentivized to innovate to survive. Rather... Read more
Chapter One. Introduction: The legal basis of markets
Chapter Two. Legal institutionalism and the question of legal coding
Chapter Three. The patent as legal device
Chapter Four. Patents as the legal coding of innovation ideas
Chapter Five. The ethics and political economy of intellectual property rights
Chapter Six. Law makes markets and market rules, and markets generate innovation: Legal institutionalism and its analytical benefits
Biography
Alexander Styhre is Chair of Management and Organization in the Department of Business Administration of the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
