Patent buy-outs
Subtitle: a mechanism for encouraging innovation
By: Michael Kremer.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 6304; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 6304.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Patents -- Government policy.; Patents -- Purchasing.; Patents -- Valuation.; Inventions -- Government policy.; Public domain (Copyright law)
Notes: "December 1997."

JEL no. O31, O30, N40.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-54).

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