Information, knowledge and appropriation: notes about the economic meaning of patents and the impacts of the rise of a knowledge-based economy
Abstract
This article discusses the economic meaning of patents. The basic assumption is that information is the key component of patents. However, information, as a commodity, has special characteristics. There is a contradiction between the structural properties of information and the attempts to preserve its appropriability.Downloads
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2007-12-03
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Albuquerque, E. da M. e. (2007). Information, knowledge and appropriation: notes about the economic meaning of patents and the impacts of the rise of a knowledge-based economy. Perspectivas Em Ciência Da Informação, 5(2). Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/pci/article/view/23346
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