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Abstract  Intellectual property law tends to be viewed as the only (or most significant) mechanism for achieving policy goals relating
to innovation assets. Yet more creative and effective solutions are often available. When analysed from a transdisciplinary
perspective, relying on the cooperative efforts of researchers from fields other than law, innovation governance is characterized
not simply as the product of legal rules, but as a function of the interaction of legal rules, practices and institutions.
When policy-makers seek to identify conditions under which the creation, use and exchange of innovation assets flourishes,
care should be taken to focus on this combination of factors. This article describes the development of an ontology—a computerized
method of representing knowledge as concepts and relations between concepts—to convey such understanding. Policy makers (and
researchers) are provided with an organized, accessible representation of innovation governance that enriches their understanding
and improves their decision-making.