"This unique book - informed by ten years' research - focuses on intellectual property and charts the global transition towards intellectual capitalism with technology-based corporations as prime movers. The book gives a comprehensive overview of the history and fundamentals of intellectual property as well as a textbook introduction to the field." "The book will have particular appeal to practitioners such as managers, economists, engineers and lawyers as well as to students and scholars of industrial organization, economics of innovation and technical change, and management of technology."--Jacket.