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Brevet, innovation modulaire et collaboration. Le cas des vaccins géniques

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  • Antoine Bureth
  • Moritz Müller
  • Julien Pénin
  • Sandrine Wolf

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Beyond their function of protecting and rewarding innovation, patents are increasingly used as mediation instruments and as vehicles for interactions. Focusing on the development of new, genetically engineered vaccines, we show that they are central components of the production of innovation. A genetically engineered vaccine is constituted by three basic modules: the antigen, the vector and the adjuvant. The advent of genetic engineering techniques promotes the autonomous development of each of these blocks at the technical as well as the organizational and the cognitive levels. Patents become therefore strategic instruments and negotiation devices throughout the elaboration of product architecture. They act as an interface between heterogeneous organizations, technological trajectories and corpus of knowledge.

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  • Antoine Bureth & Moritz Müller & Julien Pénin & Sandrine Wolf, 2007. "Brevet, innovation modulaire et collaboration. Le cas des vaccins géniques," Revue d'économie industrielle, De Boeck Université, vol. 0(4), pages 8-8.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:reidbu:rei_120_0008
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    1. Li Qin & Eleftherios Spyromitros & Moïse Sidiropoulos, 2007. "Monetary Policy with Uncertain Central Bank Preferences for Robustness," Working Papers of BETA 2007-23, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg.

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    Keywords

    Intellectual Property Rights; Vaccine; Modularity; Collective Innovation;
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    JEL classification:

    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • L24 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Contracting Out; Joint Ventures
    • L65 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - Chemicals; Rubber; Drugs; Biotechnology; Plastics
    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital

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