Perspectives on Financing Innovation

This book brings together a diverse group of leading scholars in order to address the financing of innovation. The chapters address three key areas, that of 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 cover topics including innovation in lawmaking, the use of intellectual property to protect financial engineering innovations, the tax treatment of venture capital founders, asset-backed lending hedge funds, and corporate governance for small businesses after the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill.