CAPRI: Intellectual Property, Open Source, Digital Rights Management

The main focus of the Center for the Analysis of Property Rights and Innovation(CAPRI) is to engage in academic research analyzing the role of property rights, comparing alternative forms of reward systems, and examining business models and propositions under different property rights rules.

The Center for the Analysis of Property Rights and Innovation plans to provide research grants for a small number of projects related to topics regarding the efficient production of intellectual products. The support consists of cash payments made to researchers.

Topics could include, but are not limited to: the choice of intellectual property regime, the pros and cons open source production, the impacts of copying, the nature of protection for software, digital rights management, and so forth. Although proposals of a purely theoretical bent will be considered, research that contains at least some empirical assessment is preferred. Of greatest import is that proposals seem capable of providing guidance for the resolution of actual intellectual property issues and controversies that are likely to play out in the next few years.

Amount: Not specified

Deadline: Open

For further information, please visit: http://som.utdallas.edu/capri/capri_research_proposal.htm