Introduction / F. Scott Kieff kand Troy A. Paredes
Part I : Perspectives on theories of intellectual property
Intellectual Property and the theory of the firm / Daniel F. Spulber
A transactional view of property rights / Robert P. Merges
The modularity of patent law / Henry E. Smith
Forging a new environmental and resource economics paradigm : the contractual bases for exchange / Terry L. Anderson and Gary D. Libecap
Privatizing the Public Domain / Michael B. Abramowicz
Part II : Perspectives on the problems of anticommons and patent thickets
Engineering a deal : toward a private ordering solution to the anticommons problem / F. Scott Kieff and Troy A. Paredes
Understanding the RAND commitment / Douglas Lichtman
Embryonic inventions and embryonic patents : prospects, prophecies, and pedis possessio / John F. Duffy
Innovation and its discontents / Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner
Part III : Perspectives on finance and commercialization
Patents as options / Shaun Martin and Frank Partnoy
Access to finance and the technological innovation : a historical experiment / Stephen Haber
The decline of the independent inventor : a Schumpeterian story? / Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Ken Sokoloff
Part IV : Perspectives on the university innovation
University software ownership and litigation : a first examination / Arti K. Rai, John R. Allison, and Bhaven Sampat.