Innovation Without Patents: An Introduction

• Autores: Liliane Hilaire-Pérez, Christine MacLeod, Alessandro Nuvolari
• Localización: Revue économique, ISSN 0035-2764, Vol. 64, Nº. 1, 2013 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Innovation without patents), págs. 5-8
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The traditional economic rationale in support of the patent system is a straightforward market failure argument based on the assumption that new technological knowledge is akin to a (quasi) public good. More specifically, in this view, new technological knowledge is conceived to be non-rival and hardly excludable and, therefore, once discovered, susceptible of easy imitation