Intellectual Property in Science
This book covers a number of central legal issues in relation to intellectual property in early stage research, with a focus of bioscience and biotechnology and from the perspective of Swedish research groups. Universities are in the middle of a transformation process where science is privatized and subject to a commercial logic. This process is not limited to commercialization activities but also extends to research programs. Legal constructions such as intellectual property rights influence and impact this transformation process, which results in an increased transaction-based logic at universities, and which also has an effect on how research collaboration agreements are drafted. Control by intellectual property rights claims is not per se decisive for the effects on access to research results; what matters is how such claims are used: statically, to block access, or dynamically, to enable access.