Patent buyouts: A mechanism for encouraging innovation

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1137-1167

  Kremer, Michael ^a  

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EID: 0009009362     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003355398555865     Document Type: Article

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