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Innovation and Nanotechnology: Converging Technologies and the End of Intellectual Property

Hardback

Main Details

Title Innovation and Nanotechnology: Converging Technologies and the End of Intellectual Property
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Prof. David Koepsell
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreImpact of science and technology on society
Nanotechnology
ISBN/Barcode 9781849663434
ClassificationsDewey:303.483
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date 1 June 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book defines 'nanowares' as the ideas and products arising out of nanotechnology. Koepsell argues that these rapidly developing new technologies demand a new approach to scientific discovery and innovation in our society. He takes established ideas from social philosophy and applies them to the nanoparticle world. In doing so he breaks down the subject into its elemental form and from there we are better able to understand how these elements fit into the construction of a more complex system of products, rules and regulations about these products. Where existing research in the field has tended to focus on potential social harm, Koepsell takes a different approach by looking at ways in which developments in distributed design and fabrication can be harnessed to enable wealth creation by those with good ideas but no access to capital. He argues that the key challenge facing us is the error implicit in current intellectual property regimes and presents new modes of relating inventors to artifacts in this new context. In conclusion he offers contractual models which he believes encourage innovation in nano-media by embracing open source and alternative means of protection for innovators.

Author Biography

David Koepsell is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He is the author of Who Owns You?: The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your Genes and Science and Ethics: Can Science Help us Make Wise and Moral Judgments? Also an attorney, his recent research focuses on the nexus of science, technology, ethics and public policy. He has previously held posts at Yale University, SUNY at Buffalo and the University of Antigua.