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