Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Evidence from the Human Genome

Do intellectual property (IP) rights on existing technologies hinder subsequent innovation? Using newly-collected data on the sequencing of the human genome by the public Human Genome Project and the private rm Celera, this paper estimates the impact of Celera's gene-level IP on subsequent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Heidi L.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of Chicago Press 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78858
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4364-1505