The Policies of Intellectual Property System for Innovation Development

According to the driven role of knowledge and technology in the development of countries and the public goods of knowledge, the economic exploitation of knowledge and technology requires their proprietary. Policy-making on protecting and its requirements is important and policy setting, on the one hand, encouraging innovation processes for creators and entrepreneurs, and, on the other, modifying these policies in such a way that the rete of development and dissemination of knowledge overshadowed the strong regulation. These policies vary depending on the development situation of each country. Therefore, government involvement in setting innovation policy in the intellectual property system is essential issue. This intervention will be at the level of the components, namely, regulations, Institution, organizations and actors, and at the level of functions. Therefore, in this chapter, after a brief introduction, the role of intellectual property in economic growth and the scope and the role of each intellectual property protection type will be presented. Then, the necessity of government intervention will be expressed in policy making and institutional norm settings, depending on the different approaches from the perspective of the type of government intervention. In continuous, the intellectual property system will be described in terms of its structures, laws and actors, and then some policies regarding to the intellectual property infrastructure will be presented. In the end, the status of Iran in the aforementioned points will be discussed along with two examples of areas of application and significance importance.