From the gene to the globe: Extracting rents based on intellectual property monopolies

By Christian Zeller. 2007

122 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Molecular Biology

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In Business and International Management

1. Jathan Sadowski
2. M. Aalbers
3. Callum Ward
4. D. Tyfield
5. Daniel M. Cáceres
6. Kean Birch

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. M. Aalbers
2. Callum Ward
3. D. Tyfield
4. Daniel M. Cáceres
5. Jathan Sadowski
6. Kean Birch

In Molecular Biology

1. M. Aalbers
2. Callum Ward
3. D. Tyfield
4. Daniel M. Cáceres
5. Jathan Sadowski
6. Kean Birch

Citations in the corpus

• Theorizing the Bioeconomy (2013, methodology): “Rent is then extracted from knowledge assets created through such labor and profits are maintained through the protection of monopoly conditions created by property rights (Zeller 2008).”
• Virtual special issue editorial essay: ‘The shitty rent business’: What’s the point of land rent theory? (2016, background): “ous commons (Zeller, 2008), then this form of rent should be the central category for understanding capitalism today.”
• The Internet of Landlords: Digital Platforms and New Mechanisms of Rentier Capitalism (2020, background): “…technologies like intellectual property rights used to construct and control (im)material assets out of cognitive and biological substrate (Birch 2017; Zeller 2007); and fi nancial technologies like derivatives, bonds, and risk indexes designed for the purpose of abstracting, valuing, and…”
• Accumulation by Dispossession and Socio‐Environmental Conflicts Caused by the Expansion of Agribusiness in Argentina (2015, background): “Patents legalize the process of dispossession and become both a mechanism for rent extraction and a powerful instrument of social and political power (Zeller 2008).”
• The Handbook of Neoliberalism (2016, background): “In particular, allegedly wondrous, and massively hyped, new prospects of innovation that were supposedly dependent on the private appropriation of knowledge through IPRs and on a global scale were deployed to argue for a global knowledge ‘enclosure’ movement (Boyle 2003; Lessig 2001; Zeller 2008).”