Innovation and nanotechnology : converging technologies and the end of intellectual property / / David Keopsell.

• Author: Koepsell, David R.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book defines 'nanowares' as the ideas and products arising out of nanotechnology. Koepsell argues that these rapidly developing new technologies demand a new approach to scientific discovery and innovation in our society. He takes established ideas from social philosophy and applies t...

Table of Contents

• Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Let's Get Small; From Feynman to Drexler; Technology Makes a Tiny Difference; Current Policy and Nanotech; Intellectual Property: Unique Concerns of Nano; Ethical, Policy, and Social Implications of Future Nanotech; The Nano-now: What's Currently Happening in Micro-manufacturing and Nano; An Outline for the Investigation; 2 Nano-futures; Utopian Visionaries and Dystopian Doomsayers; Special Problems of Manufacturing at the Nanoscale; Nanotechnology Achievements: The Nano-now; Nano-artifacts: Some New Philosophical Challenges
• Can an Idea be Other than Abstract? When Software and Hardware Merge; 3 The Nano-now; A Bridge to the Future: The Trend of 'Micro-manufacturing'; A New Industrial Revolution?; Software and IP, a (Failed) Experiment in Inducing Scarcity?; Alternatives to IP and Innovation in ICT; Innovation and Growth: Profiting without Scarcity; Capitalism without Capital; 4 Law and Ethics: Rules, Regulations, and Rights in Nanowares; The Environment; Safety: Ethical Duties in Case of Consent; Security: Can and Should We Prevent Evil Uses of Nanotechnology?
• Security and Synthetic Biology: Precursor to Nanotech? The Path of Openness; 5 Things in Themselves: Redefining Intellectual Property in the Nano-age; The Emergence of Intellectual Property; Ideas versus Expressions; Atoms for Bits: Pragmatic and Theoretical Challenges; IP Challenges in Present and Future Nanowares; Contract versus Monopoly; Some Initial Requirements; Empirical Work to be Done; 6 Authorship and Artifacts: Remaking IP Law for Future Objects; Rights to Expressions: History and Theory; Nature, Creation, Artifact, and Invention; Revising Our Relationships with Artifacts
• Creation and Dissemination of Types versus Goods Ethical Problems with Traditional IP; Conclusion; 7 Economics, Surplus, and Justice; Justice and Monopoly; Ideas as Commons and Truly Free Markets; The Scientific Commons and the Marketplace; Justice and Law: Rejecting Positivism; A Vacuum of Justice; Progress and Justice: Embracing a Natural Basis for the Good; Rights to Tokens and Exchanges of Types: Pragmatic and Theoretical Approaches to Markets without Scarcity; Tiered pricing models; 8 Nanotech Nightmares; Scientific Duties and Dangerous Technologies; The Scientific Firewall
• The Bioethics Example Respect, Beneficence, and Justice; Extending the Moral Horizon; Smallpox, Ice-nine, and Nanowares; The 'Eventual' Fallacy; Implications for Institutions; Does the Future Need Us?; 9 The Final Convergence; Nanowares: What Are They, Really?; Ethics and Innovation; Choosing to Do Better; The Logical Necessity of Open Innovation; A New Theory of IP and Its Role in Innovation; The Creativity Economy; Nanowares and Converging Philosophical Inquiries; Notes; Bibliography; Index;