Do Oil Companies aquire Alternative Energy Patents to Limit Technological Innovation, in order to Maintain Economic Advantage in Fossil Fuels
This paper addresses the charge made by environmental groups that oil companies, since the 1970's, have been acquiring alternative energy patents, to restrict these technologies from reaching the market. The purpose of these restrictions was to protect profits from oil, natural gas and coal....
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45223 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10222002-164933/ |