Property rights and information flows: a simulation approach
- Authors
- Boisot, Max; MacMillan, Ian C.; Han, Kyeong Seok
- Issue Date
- Feb-2007
- Publisher
- SPRINGER
- Keywords
- agent-based simulation; knowledge management; intellectual property rights; evolutionary modelling; information flows
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS, v.17, no.1, pp.63 - 93
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS
- Volume
- 17
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 63
- End Page
- 93
- URI
- http://scholarworks.bwise.kr/ssu/handle/2018.sw.ssu/17845
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00191-006-0031-7
- ISSN
- 0936-9937
- Abstract
- With the growth of the information economy, the proportion of knowledge-intensive goods to total goods is constantly increasing. Lessig (The future of ideas: the fate of the commons in a connected world. Vintage, New York 2001) has argued that IPRs have now become too favourable to existing producers and that their 'winner-take-all' characteristics are constraining the creators of tomorrow. In this paper we look at how variations in IPRs regimes might affect the creation and social cost of new knowledge in economic systems. Drawing on a conceptual framework, the Information Space or I-Space to explore how the uncontrollable diffusibility of knowledge relates to its degree of structure, we deploy an agent-based modelling approach to explore the issue of IPRs. We take the ability to control the diffusibility of knowledge as a proxy measure for an ability to establish property rights in such knowledge. Second, we take the rate of obsolescence of knowledge as a proxy measure for the degree of turbulence induced by different regimes of technical change. Then we simulate the quantity and cost to society of new knowledge under different property right regimes.
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