Theories of intellectual property take the individual inventor or the firm as the unit of innovation. But studies in economic sociology show that in complex fields where knowledge is rapidly advancing and widely dispersed among different firms, the locus of innovation is neither an individual nor a single firm. Rather, innovative ideas originate in the informal networks of learning and collabor...

The purpose of this article is to clarify some the problems trade secret protection and suggest ways overcome them. methodological basis study are general special methods cognition. use these made it possible describe protection. Results: found that breaches secrets considered by international law as unfair competition. At same time, laws on competition in countries continental (pandectic) lega...