The Case Against Patents
The case against patents can be summarized briefly: there is no empirical evidence that they serve to increase innovation and productivity, unless productivity is identified with the number of patents awarded-which, as evidence shows, has no correlation with measured productivity. Both theory and ev...
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Volume: | 27 |
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Main Author: |
Michele Boldrin
David K. Levine |
Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
Zielgruppe: |
Academic |
Place of publication: |
NASHVILLE American Economic Association 01.01.2013 AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC |
published in: | The Journal of economic perspectives Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 3 - 22 |
Data of publication: | 20130101 |
ISSN: |
0895-3309 1944-7965 |
EISSN: |
1944-7965 |
Discipline: | Economics Law |
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Database: | JSTOR Open Access Journals Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Knowledge Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2013 Web of Science CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS |