Strategic patent breadth for drastic innovations
Patents are one of the most powerful forms of intellectual property protection and have been used for the last 500 years as a mechanism to stimulate the production and enable the dissemination of technological knowledge. Patents enable innovators to capture innovation rents through the granting of e...
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University of Saskatchewan
2009
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Online Access: | http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-11252008-132328/ |