This article examines the use of covenants non to compete in employment contracts, clauses which raise the issue of firm intangible assets appropriation and the sharing of the rent with the employees. It relies on the recent theoretical developments that show how the law can ensure innovation...

This paper proposes a review of the book « Droit et Economie de la propriété intellectuelle » (Intellectual property law and economics) (edited by Frison-Roche and A. Abello, 2005) that gathers 17 contributions of lawyers and Economists. We present the main and strong argument of this...

"Institutions", as a set of pre-existing and objective resources of justification, is the milieu where economic agents can find materials to solve their coordination problems and/or their conflicts of reproduction. "Conventions" are collective representations of Hjustified common worlds" that...

"Placing himself at the crossroads of economics, law, and sociology, Christian Bessy investigates the contemporary transformation of intellectual property rights (IPR). He demonstrates how entities previously considered inappropriate have now become the object of property rights by means of a...