Invention, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights

This chapter considers the three elements – innovation, invention and legal property – not only as three economic data, but also as three objects of knowledge with the aim of exploring their nature, and then their genetic interactions. It presents each of the three knowledge objects succinctly and successively, beginning with the act of innovation and its results, followed by the capacity to invent and finally the intellectual inventive corpus and intangible capital. The chapter then provides an overview of the links between these three knowledge objects, whose combinatory is worth six. The ICAROS method employed here makes use of the inventive intellectual corpus to stimulate inventive activity. Finally, the chapter questions the nature of these links as one of the knowledge objects is able to stimulate another, with our questioning concentrating on a possible cause of this capacity.