Exclusion, Inclusion, and Enclosure: Historical Commons and Modern Intellectual Property

World Development

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1713-1727

  Runge, C Ford ^a   Defrancesco, Edi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

biotechnology; common property; enclosure; Europe; Great Britain; open software

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCE; DEVELOPING WORLD; GENOMICS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; SOFTWARE;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33748467484     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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