Matching demand and supply in a weightless economy: Market-driven creativity with and without IPRS

Economist

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 381-403

  Quah, Danny ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural good; Finitely expansible; Innovation; Intellectual asset; Intellectual property; Internet; IP valuation; IPR; Knowledge product; MP3; Nonrival; Software

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; MARKET CONDITIONS; MONOPOLY;

EID: 0036383197     PISSN: 0013063X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020190017022     Document Type: Article

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