On the interaction between patent policy and trade secret policy

Australian Economic Review

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 427-35

  Erkal, Nisvan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; KNOWLEDGE; TRADE POLICY;

EID: 11244296165     PISSN: 00049018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2004.00344.x     Document Type: Article

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