Intellectual property rights and appropriability of innovation

Economics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 138-141

  Akiyama, Taro ^a   Furukawa, Yuichi ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Appropriability; Intellectual property rights; Masking; Patent policy; TRIPs

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349277025     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2009.03.006     Document Type: Article

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