02838nam 22004931 450 99621490080331620200514202323.09781849664783 (ebook)9781849664790 (PDF ebook)9781849663434 (hardback)10.5040/9781849664783(CKB)3680000000164644(SSID)ssj0000537930(PQKBManifestationID)11344980(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000537930(PQKBWorkID)10556834(PQKB)10112387(OCoLC)750172578(UkLoBP)bpp09257364(EXLCZ)99368000000016464420140929d2011 uy 0enguzau#---uuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierInnovation and nanotechnology converging technologies and the end of intellectual property /David KoepsellLondon :Bloomsbury,2011.1 online resource (242 pages) illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: MonographPrint version: 9781849663434 Includes bibliographical references and index."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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.NanotechnologyPhilosophyIntellectual propertyNanotechnologyPhilosophy.Intellectual property.Koepsell David686842UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBP996214900803316Innovation and Nanotechnology1802458UNISA