From Personal to Impersonal Exchange in Ideas : Experimental Study of Trade in Organized Markets for Patents

The patent system has developed over a period of over 500 years. The initial motivation was a desire to import privately held technology to advance economic development, offering excluding and transferrable rights through licensing to “inventors” for the disclosure and perfection of their “contrivan...

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Main Author: Ullberg, Eskil
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: KTH, Transporter och samhällsekonomi 2009
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-11395
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