Revisiting intellectual property policy: Information economics for the information age

Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-40

  Dempsey, Gillian ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Economics; Intellectual property; Network externalities; Policy

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; POLICY STRATEGY;

EID: 0033037289     PISSN: 08109028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08109029908629395     Document Type: Article

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1. The author expresses thanks to her doctoral supervisors, Roger Clarke, Peter Drahos, Don Lamberton and Greg Shailer, and to Andrew Greinke for his comments on earlier drafts of this article.
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