Perspectives on Financing Innovation

<p>Although much has been written about innovation in the past several years not all parts of the innovation lifecycle have been given the same treatment. This volume focuses on the important first step of arranging financing for innovation before it is made and explores the feedback effect that innovation can have on finance itself. </p><p>The book brings together a diverse group of leading scholars in order to address the financing of innovation. The chapters address three key areas intellectual property venture capital and financial engineering in the capital markets in order to provide fresh and insightful analyses of current and future economic developments in financing innovation. Chapters on intellectual property cover topics including innovation in law-making orphan business models and the use of intellectual property to protect financial engineering innovations and developing intellectual property regimes in Brazil Russia India and China. The book also covers the tax treatment of venture capital founders the treatment of preferred stock by the Delaware Courts asset-backed lending hedge funds and corporate governance for small businesses after the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill. </p><p>The book<i> </i>will be of interest to scholars practitioners and students in law innovation finance and business.</p>