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Valuable Asset Or Vibrant Force? Intellectual Property And Conceptions Of Culture, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
Valuable Asset Or Vibrant Force? Intellectual Property And Conceptions Of Culture, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
Discussions of intellectual property as property often implicitly rely upon conceptions of value that give primacy to economic and business value while dismissing or even ignoring questions of cultural value. Questions of cultural value are, however, fundamental to discussions of intellectual property today. Discussions of intellectual property often emphasize treating cultural material as valuable assets and highlight the role of intellectual property in protecting such assets. Valuable asset models of culture accentuate the business and economic utility of intellectual property assets. Valuable asset approaches, however, typically reflect an incomplete understanding of the roles of culture and the intersection of culture …
Strategic Behaviors And Competition: Intangibles, Intellectual Property And Innovation, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
Strategic Behaviors And Competition: Intangibles, Intellectual Property And Innovation, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
Intangibles such as intellectual property rights are an increasingly important source of value for businesses today. This increasing importance has significance for the uses of intangibles by companies and the mechanisms and behaviors by which companies extract value from intangibles. The manners in which holders of intellectual property rights wield such rights can play an important role in shaping the effective functioning of intellectual property frameworks. Although intellectual property rights may serve as important tools of innovation, empirical evidence shows that in many industries intellectual property protection is not a primary means by which innovation is protected. Moreover, increasingly pervasive …
Measuring And Representing The Knowledge Economy: Accounting For Economic Reality Under The Intangibles Paradigm, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
Measuring And Representing The Knowledge Economy: Accounting For Economic Reality Under The Intangibles Paradigm, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
Enron has become a symbol: a symbol of excess, an illustration of how a company can base its business on fraudulent, deceptive or even largely non-existent business transactions. The collapse of Enron had a significant impact on the adoption of legislation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was intended to prevent the types of fraudulent behavior that occurred at Enron. However, Sarbanes-Oxley and other responses to the business practices of many companies during the late 1990s do not fully address some of the underlying factors that permitted and in fact encouraged the Enrons of the world to represent their companies …