Intellectual property law is only one of many legal institutions that can help promote, stifle, or govern knowledge production. For example, government also transfers rewards to innovators through tax incentives, grants, and prizes; regulates innovation through the administrative state (the EPA, FTC, SEC, CPFB etc.); creates legal rules and infrastructures that can help sustain or undermine commons-based production; and influences innovation through law and institutions related to immigration, tort law, education, and more. How do forms of law and governance beyond IP promote innovation, as well as values such as equity, privacy, and democracy? How should these systems be combined, both with one another and with IP law?
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Comparing Innovation Policy Levers – 129
Beyond the Patents-Prizes Debate
Daniel Hemel & Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
The Fracking Revolution: A Case Study in Policy Levers to Promote Innovation
John Golden & Hannah Wiseman
Commentators: Rebecca Eisenberg, Michael Abramowicz
Cultural Production Without IP – 128
Incubating Indies: New Distributed Models to Support Diverse Culture
Sean Pager
Real Accounts from Creators and Innovators: Making Do with an Intellectual Property Misfit
Jessica Silbey
Commentators: Pam Samuelson, Barton Beebe
Regulation and Institutions – 129
Innovation Sticks
Amy Kapczynski & Ian Ayres
Comparative Analysis of Failures and Institutions in Context
Brett Frischmann & Mark McKenna
Commentators: Yochai Benkler, Mark Lemley
Privacy and Innovation – 128
Roundtable discussants: Bryan Choi, Julie Cohen, Frank Pasquale, Tal Zarsky
Moderator: Margot Kaminski
Prizes and Grants – 129
Governing Innovation Prizes
Michael Burstein & Fiona Murray
The Unexpected Political Economy of Serendipity
Bhaven Sampat
Commentators: Jonathan Masur, Brian Wright
Organizational Structures – 128
Corporate Structures for Innovation
Dan Burk
Public-Private Partnerships as Innovation Strategies
Liza Vertinsky
Commentators: Roger Ford, Sean O’Connor
Direct Government Incentives—Procurement and Venture Capital Programs – 129
Local Commercialization Incentives
Camilla Hrdy
Incentives To Develop Whose Knowledge?
Jim Bessen
Commentators: Talha Syed, Arti Rai
Innovation and Human Capital – 128
Roundtable discussants: Orly Lobe, Mario Biagioli, Rochelle Dreyfuss
Moderator: Kiel Brennan-Marquez