discusses some of the interpretative achievements stemming from e.g. the economics of innovation, industrial economics …, epistemilogy of knowledge, economic sociology and history of technology among others. In particular, one tries to identify the …

and in particular of Intellectual Property Right (IPR) as incentives for technological innovation. We start with a … critical discussion of the standard justification of the attribution of IPR in terms of market failures in knowledge generation …. Such an approach we argue misses important features of technological knowledge and also neglects the importance of non …