About Us
The Southern California Innovation Project is committed to fostering research and promoting discussion about the impact of the legal environment beyond intellectual property protection on the innovative capacity of firms. Legal and other social science scholars are beginning to recognize how areas of law as diverse as employment law, financial regulation, corporate law, contract law, environmental and health safety regulation, antitrust and the regulatory regime for law itself impact innovation in the economy.
Through its various events,SCIP has identified several key areas for research in this nascent field:
- Collaboration and peer production
- Privacy and database regulation
- Information flows within and across organizations
- Global supply chains
- Regulation in fields of extreme uncertainty such as nanotechnology & biotechnology
- Capital markets in ideas
- Production of law, legal services and legal uncertainty
SCIP expands discussion and scholarship on these topics by:
- Hosting roundtable forums where participants engage in discussions that set the agenda by formulating questions for research topics
- Hosting conferences that bring together scholars and experts to address and share their ideas
- Providing substantial research grants for scholars to produce original work on topics that further our understanding of law and innovation
