Why do entrepreneurs patent?

Handbook on Law, Innovation and Growth

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 212-244

  Sichelman, Ted M ^a   Graham, Stuart J H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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