Do small and medium-sized enterprises benefit from patent protection?

Linking Local and Global Economies: The Ties that Bind

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 220-239

  Correa, Carlos M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203987377     Document Type: Chapter

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