Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy

Two dozen legal and economic scholars from both sides of the border and beyond analyze a key microeconomic challenge facing Canada and its peers: maximizing incentives for innovation while maintaining fair competition, with a special emphasis on patents and licensing practices. Culminates in a summary of a roundtable discussion from a 1996 authors' symposium reviewing drafts of these ten papers, and conclusions. Also issued in French. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.