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This project investigates the impact of patent systems on innovation by analyzing the introduction of software patents in the U.S. It aims to understand how knowledge privatization affects corporate productivity and research and development concentration, using Europe as a comparative backdrop.
Patent systems are supposed to spur incentives to innovate 1) by granting inventors temporary monopoly rights that allow them to recoup their research and development (R&D) investment and 2) by facilitating follow-up inventions by making information about technical inventions available to the public.
In other words, patents make technical information available to society at the cost of “privatization” of this knowledge.
Knowledge freely available to the public, as for instance through scientific…
UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG
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