Creativity, law and entrepreneurship / edited by Shubha Ghosh, Robin Paul Malloy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ghosh, Shubha.

Malloy, Robin Paul.

Series:

Elgar law and entrepreneurship.

Elgar law and entrepreneurship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative ability in business.

Entrepreneurship.

Commercial law.

Creative ability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Pub., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Creativity, Law and Entrepreneurship addresses the relationship between law (institutions and regulations) and entrepreneurship (human activity with the aim of creating something new). Human activity is the essence of entrepreneurship. What unites law and creativity, work and play, is their shared origins in this activity. In this book, a varied group of scholars examine the building blocks of entrepreneurship by not only addressing the legal institutions that might regulate and promote enterprise, but by also exploring the very idea of creativity. The contributions to this volume provide a se

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: can we incentivize creativity and entrepreneurship?; 2. Real estate transactions and entrepreneurship; 3. Creativity and craft; 4. 'Will work': the role of intellectual property in transitional economies - from coal to content; 5. Transforming the Chicago School approach to creativity in copyright; 6. The central role of law as a meta method in creativity and entrepreneurship

7. Individual branding: how the rise of individual creation and distribution of cultural products confuses the intellectual property system8. Creativity without copyright: anarchist publishers and their approaches to copyright protection; 9. Patenting by high technology entrepreneurs; 10. The evolution of collaborative invention at a distance: evidence from the patent record; 11. Institutionalization of creativity in traditional societies and in international trade law; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-13297-4

9786613132970

0-85793-316-7

OCLC:

731646727