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Dr. William Kingston
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Trinity Business School

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

William Kingston, How Capitalism Destroyed Itself, Hardback, Cheltenhan UIk, Northampton MA, US, Edward Elgar, 2017, 1 - 174pp Book, 2017

William Kingston, Restoring the Primacy of Technological Innovation, Prometheus critical studies in innovatiion, 33, (1), 2015, p21 - 41 Journal Article, 2015

William Kingston, Schumpeter and the End of Western Capitalism, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 24, (3), 2014, p447 - 477 Journal Article, 2014 TARA - Full Text

William Kingston, Schumpeter and the End of Western Capitalism , Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 24, (3), 2014, p449 - 478 Journal Article, 2014 TARA - Full Text

A Running Repair for the World Trade Organization in, editor(s)Louis Brennan , Enacting Globalization, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp89 - 98, [William Kingston] Book Chapter, 2014

William Kingston, The Electoral System Is Still Crucial, Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review, 103, (409), 2014, p54 - 59 Journal Article, 2014

William Kingston, What Gladstone Could Teach the EU, History Ireland, 21, (6), 2013, p44 - 47 Journal Article, 2013

William Kingston, Transforming the Conditions for Indigenous Innovation, Economic and Social Review, 43, (4), 2012, p631 - 652 Journal Article, 2012

William Kingston, Information Protection: Filling Some Gaps Left by Patents, Intellectual Property Quarterly, 15, (4), 2012, p227 - 241 Journal Article, 2012 TARA - Full Text

William Kingston, Intellectual Property, the Banking Crisis and the Public Interest, European Intellectual Property Review, 33, (6), 2011, p338 - 341 Journal Article, 2011 TARA - Full Text

Need the Irish Economic Experiment Fail? in, editor(s)John Hogan, Paul F. Donnelly, Brendan K. O'Rourke , Irish Business and Society, Dublin , Gill and Macmillan, 2010, pp110 - 130, [William Kingston] Book Chapter, 2010

William Kingston, Bayond Intellectual Property: Matching Information Protection to Innovation, First, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010, 1 - 247pp Book, 2010

William Kingston, 'Interrogating Irish Policies' Revisited, Studies, 98, (389), 2009, p71 - 79 Journal Article, 2009 TARA - Full Text

Why patents need reform, and some suggestions for it in, editor(s)Arup, Christopher and William van Caenegem , Intellectual Property Policy Reform, Cheltenham , Edward Elgar, 2009, pp11 - 28, [William Kingston] Book Chapter, 2009 TARA - Full Text

William Kingston, Bankers Only Listen to Laws, Regulation, 32, (1), 2009, p4 - 5 Journal Article, 2009 TARA - Full Text

William Kingston, Intellectual Property in the Lisbon Treaty, European Intellectual Property Review, 30, (11), 2008, p439 - 443 Journal Article, 2008 TARA - Full Text

William Kingston, Irish Contributions to the Origins of Antibiotics , Irish Journal of Medical Science , 177, (2 (April)), 2008, p87 - 92 Journal Article, 2008

Willliam Kingston, Interrogating Irish Policies, First, Dublin, Dublin University Press, 2007, 1 - 148pp Book, 2007

William Kingston, Repairing Incentives to Invest in Plant Breeding, Intellectual Property Quarterly, 10, (3), 2007, p294 - 311 Journal Article, 2007

William Kingston, Chance and Irish Involvement in Two Scientific Revolutions, Studies, 96, (383), 2007, p295 - 307 Journal Article, 2007 TARA - Full Text

William Kingston, Improving Patents for Smaller Firms: Insurance, Incontestability, Arbitration?, Intellectual Property Quarterly, 10, (1), 2007, p1 - 18 Journal Article, 2007 TARA - Full Text

Kingston, William, A New Measure of International Competitiveness, International Joseph Schumpeter Society Conference, Nice, 2006, 2006 Conference Paper, 2006

William Kingston and Kevin Scally, Patents and the Measurement of International Competitiveness, Cheltenham, Elward Elgar, 2006, v. - 203pp Book, 2006

William Kingston, Limited Incontestability for Small-Firm Patents, European Intellectual Property Review, 28, (9), 2006, p463 - 468 Journal Article, 2006 TARA - Full Text

William Kingston, Schumpeter, Business Cycles and Co-Evolution, Industry and Innovation, 13, (1), 2006, p97 - 106 Journal Article, 2006 TARA - Full Text

William Kingston, 'Schumpeter's Concept of 'Vision' in Economics: A Response to Professor Andersen.', Industry and Innovation, 13, (1), 2006, p117 - 120 Journal Article, 2006 TARA - Full Text

William Kingston, Trademark Registration Is Not a Right, Journal of Macromarketing, 26, (1), 2006, p17 - 26 Journal Article, 2006 TARA - Full Text

'Belief in the Superior Wisdom of the State...' in, editor(s)Frank Litton, Tony Farmar, Frank Scott-Lennon , Ideas at Work: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey MacKechnie, Dublin, A & A Farmar, 2006, pp161 - 176, [William Kingston] Book Chapter, 2006

Willliam Kingston, Systemic Corporate Failure of Public Administration: Reflections on the Travers Report. , Studies, 94, (376), 2005, p385 - 395 Journal Article, 2005

William Kingston, 'A Response to Wainwright's Letter to the Editor.' , Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 60, (2), 2005, p221 - 221 Journal Article, 2005

'An Agenda for Radical Intellectual Property Reform' in, editor(s)Maskus, Keith E. and Reichman, Jerome H. , International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime , Cambridge, University Press, 2005, pp653 - 668, [William Kingston] Book Chapter, 2005

William Kingston, 'Genius', 'Faction' and Rescuing Intellectual Property Rights, Prometheus, 23, (1), 2005, p3 - 25 Journal Article, 2005 TARA - Full Text

William Kingston, Removing Some Harm from the World Trade Organization, Oxford Development Studies, 32, (2), 2004, p309 - 320 Journal Article, 2004

Kingston W., Removing Some Harm from the World Trade Organization, Oxford Development Studies, 32, (2), 2004, p309 - 320 Journal Article, 2004 TARA - Full Text

'Christopher Dawson' in, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, University Press, 2004, pp551 - 551, [William Kingston] Book Chapter, 2004

Kingston W., Why Harmonization is a Trojan Horse, European Intellectual Property Review, 26, (10), 2004, p447 - 460 Journal Article, 2004

Kingston W., Light on Simultaneous Innovation from US Patent 'Interference' Records, World Patent Information, 26, 2004, p209 - 220 Journal Article, 2004

Kingston W., An Alternative Agenda for Public Service Reform, Administration, 52, (1), 2004, p35 - 45 Journal Article, 2004

Kingston W., How Realistic Are EU Hopes for Innovation?, European Intellectual Property Review, 226, (5), 2004, p197 - 202 Journal Article, 2004

Kingston W., Streptomycin, Schatz v. Waksman and the Balance of Credit for Discovery, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 59, (1), 2004, p441 - 462 Journal Article, 2004

Kingston W., Making Patents Useful to Small Firms, Intellectual Property Quarterly, 4, 2004, p369 - 378 Journal Article, 2004 TARA - Full Text

Christopher Dawson in, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, [William Kingston] Book Chapter, 2004

Kingston, William, What Future Now for European National Patent Offices?, European Intellectual Property Review, (7), 2003, p289-291 Journal Article, 2003

William Kingston, Intellectual Property's Problems: How Far is the U.S. Constitution to Blame?, Intellectual Property Quarterly, 4, 2002, p315 - 341 Journal Article, 2002 TARA - Full Text

Kingston, William, A Running Repair for the Civil Service, Political Quarterly, (2), 2002, p198-207 Journal Article, 2002

William Kingston, Intellectual Property Needs Help from Accounting, European Intellectual Property Review, 11, 2002, p508 - 515 Journal Article, 2002

William Kingston, What Can We Do About the Civil Service?, Studies, 90, 2001, p320-330 Journal Article, 2001 TARA - Full Text

Don E. Kash and William Kingston, Patents in a world of complex technologies, Science and Public Policy, 28, (1), 2001, p11 - 23 Journal Article, 2001

William Kingston, Innovation needs patents reform, Research Policy, 30, (3), 2001, p403 - 423 Journal Article, 2001

William Kingston, Protecting the inventions of smaller high-tech firms, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2, (1), 2000, p5 - 12 Journal Article, 2000

William Kingston, Antibiotics, invention and innovation, Research Policy, 29, (6), 2000, p679 - 710 Journal Article, 2000

William Kingston, A Spectre is Haunting the World - the Spectre of Global Capitalism, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2000 Journal Article, 2000 TARA - Full Text

William Kingston, The Case for Compulsory Arbitration - Empirical Evidence, European Intellectual Property Review, 22, (4), 2000, p154 - 158 Journal Article, 2000

William Kingston, New Approaches to Innovation Protection, Economie Appliquée, (2), 1999, p221-236 Journal Article, 1999

William Kingston, The Prophetic Voices of Christopher Dawson, Studies 88, 1999, p335 - 339 Journal Article, 1999

William Kingston, Moines, Liturgie et Travail, Bulletin du Monastère de Ganagobie, 1998 Journal Article, 1998

William Kingston, Patent Protection for Modern Technologies, Intellectual Property Quarterly, (3), 1997, p351-69 Journal Article, 1997

William Kingston, Monks, Liturgy and Labour, Studies, 1996, p181-189 Journal Article, 1996

William Kingston, Reducing the Cost of Resolving Intellectual Property Disputes, European Journal of Law and Economics, (1), 1995, p85-92 Journal Article, 1995

William Kingston, Innovation or Bureaucracy?, Creativity and Innovation Management, (3), 1995, p184-194 Journal Article, 1995

William Kingston, A Way Ahead for Ocean Wave Energy?, Energy Studies Review, (1), 1994, p85-88 Journal Article, 1994

William Kingston, A Reflection in Ganagobie, Crisis, 1994, p18 Journal Article, 1994

William Kingston, Economic Freedom Under the Law, Chesterton Review, (2&3), 1994, p229-38 Journal Article, 1994

William Kingston, Compulsory Licensing with Capital Payments as an Alternative to Monopoly Grants for Intellectual Property, Research Policy, (5), 1994, p1275-89 Journal Article, 1994

William Kingston, Why Ireland Failed to Keep Up, Studies, 1994, p252-64 Journal Article, 1994

William Kingston, Property Rights and the Making of Christendom, Studies, 1993, p402-425 Journal Article, 1993

William Kingston, Christopher Dawson, Dictionary of National Biography, 1993, p141-142 Journal Article, 1993

William Kingston, Protecting the Fruits of Imagination, Creativity and Innovation Management, (2), 1993, p74-79 Journal Article, 1993

William Kingston, How Inventions Should Be Protected, Future, 1993, p17-23 Journal Article, 1993

William Kingston, Direct Protection of Innovation - an Opportunity for Hungarian Legislators, Aula: Society and Economy, 1992, p95-105 Journal Article, 1992

William Kingston, The Patent System - Unexploited Potential? in Public Lecture Series in Honour of the Centenary of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, 1992, p77-87 Journal Article, 1992

William Kingston, Patents and Endogenous Capacity-Building in Environmentally Sound Technology for Sustainable Development, 1992, p175-180 Journal Article, 1992

William Kingston, Property Rights and the Making of Christendom, Journal of Law and Religion, (2), 1992, p373-397 Journal Article, 1992 TARA - Full Text

William Kingston, Is the United States Right About First-to-Invent?, European Intellectual Property Review, 1992, p223 - 226 Journal Article, 1992

William Kingston, Community R&D Funding: the U.S. Shows a Better Way, European Affairs, 2, (4), 1988, p137 - 142 Journal Article, 1988 TARA - Full Text

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

William Kingston, Information Protection for Indigenous Firms, Business and Finance, 11, (2), 2011, p63 - 64 Journal Article, 2011

William Kingston, Electoral reform: a democratic covenant?, Business and Finance, 2011, p66 - 66 Journal Article, 2011

William Kingston, The Dogs that Didn't Bark: Auditors and the Banking Fiasco, Business and Finance, 46, (10), 2010, p50 - 50 Journal Article, 2010 TARA - Full Text

William Kingston, The Sane Way to Feed the Incinerator, Inland Waterways News, 2008, p20 - 20 Journal Article, 2008

William Kingston, Upside of Voting 'No', Business and Finance, (July 4), 2008, p54 - 54 Journal Article, 2008

William Kingston, Upside of Voting 'No', Business and Finance, (July 4), 2008, p54 - 54 Journal Article, 2008

Kingston, William, The economics of the European patent system: IP policy for innovation and competition, Review of The economics of the European patent system: IP policy for innovation and competition, by van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno and Guellec, Dominique , World Patent Information, 29, (3), 2007, p268-269 Review, 2007 DOI URL

Unlocking the Potential of Intellectual Property in, editor(s)Ove Granstrand , Economics, Law and Intellectual Property, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic, 2003, pp311 - 329, [Kingston, William] Book Chapter, 2003

Kingston, William, Innovation: the Creative Impulse in Human Progress (new and enlarged edition), Washington, D.C., The Leonard F. Sugerman Press, 2003 Book, 2003

Schumpeter and the Future of Capitalism in, editor(s)Vittorangelo Orati and Shri Bhagwan Dahiya , Economic Theory in the Light of Schumpeter's Scientific Heritage, Rohtak (India), Spellbound Publications, 2001, [William Kingston] Book Chapter, 2001

William Kingston, Enforcing Small Firms' Patent Rights, Luxembourg, EU Directorate-General for Enterprise, 2001 Book, 2001

A spectre is haunting the world - the spectre of global capitalism in, editor(s)Dennis C. Mueller and Uwe Cantner , Capitalism and Democracy in the 21st century, Heidelberg, Physica-Verlag, 2001, [William Kingston] Book Chapter, 2001

The case for compulsory arbitration - empirical evidence in, editor(s)Directorate-General for Enterprise , Patinnova '99, Brussels, Commission of the European Communities, 2000, [William Kingston] Book Chapter, 2000

Recession and Intellectual Property - 'Innovation Warrants' in, editor(s)Alison Firth, Shelley Lane and Yvonne Smyth , Readings in Intellectual Property, London, Sweet and Maxwell, 1998, pp374 , [William Kingston] Book Chapter, 1998

Is the United States Right about 'First to Invent'? in, editor(s)Alison Firth, Shelley Lane and Yvonne Smyth , Readings in Intellectual Property, London, Sweet and Maxwell, 1998, pp375-379 , [William Kingston] Book Chapter, 1998

What Kind of Patent System Does Europe Need? in, editor(s)Sabine Urban , Europe's Challenges: Economic Efficiency and Social Solidarity, Wiesbaden, Gabler Verlag, 1996, [William Kingston] Book Chapter, 1996

Entrepreneurship or Rent-seeking? in, editor(s)Andrew E. Burke , Enterprise and the Irish Economy, Dublin, Oak Tree Press, 1995, pp249-67 , [William Kingston] Book Chapter, 1995

Economic Convergence: An Aspiration Unfulfilled in, editor(s)Sabine Urban , Europe's Economic Future: Aspirations and Realities, Wiesbaden, Gabler Verlag, 1994, pp53-75 , [William Kingston] Book Chapter, 1994

William Kingston, Innovation, Creativity and Law, Dordrecht / Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Book, 1990

Innovation: New Property Rights are Better Than State Involvement in, editor(s)D. McAleese , Competition and Industry: The Irish Experience, Dublin, Gill and Macmillan, 1989, [William Kingston] Book Chapter, 1989

William Kingston, Direct Protection of Innovation, Dordrecht/Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers for the Europ, 1987 Book, 1987

Industrial Policy and Innovation in Europe in, editor(s)H.W. de Jong and W.G. Shepherd , Mainstreams in Industrial Organization, Dordrecht / Boston, Martinus Nijhoff, 1986, [William Kingston] Book Chapter, 1986

William Kingston, The Political Economy of Innovation, The Hague/Boston, Martinus Nijhoff, 1984 Book, 1984

The Financing of New Businesses in, editor(s)The U.K. Cabinet Office , Industrial Innovation, London, The Stationery Office, 1979, [William Kingston] Book Chapter, 1979

William Kingston, Innovation: The Creative Impulse in Human Progress, London, John Calder, 1977 Book, 1977