Do patent pools encourage innovation? Evidence from the nineteenth-century sewing machine industry

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 898-920

  Lampe, Ryan ^a   Moser, Petra ^b  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC HISTORY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; INDUSTRIAL HISTORY; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; INNOVATION; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; NINETEENTH CENTURY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952961935     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: 14716372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050710000768     Document Type: Article

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