La economía política del sistema español de patentes en perspectiva internacional (1826-1902)

David Pretel
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David Pretel: Centro de Estudios Históricos, El Colegio de México, Camino al Ajusco No. 20, Col. Pedregal de Sta. Teresa, C.P. 10740, Ciudad de México, México

Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Research (IHE-EHR), Journal of the Spanish Economic History Association, 2017, vol. 13, issue 03, 190-200

Abstract: The various nineteenth-century national patent systems had a heterogeneous institutional evolution. This article explores the international determinants of this institutional diversity, using the Spanish system as a case study. Instead of presenting the causality as running from institutions to economic performance, it explores the inverse relationship, that is, how Spain's technological backwardness and dependency set the stage for the institutional organisation of this country's patent system. The international dynamics manifested in different aspects of the system: its peripheral, hybrid and dual nature; the Spanish reception of the European controversy over patent rights; the early Spanish integration into the international patent system; and the prominence of international intermediaries. The article concludes that nineteenth-century variations in the institutional architecture and the administrative practices of the various national systems were the consequence of the historical making of an asymmetric international patent system. KEY Classification-JEL: N73. O3. F55. B1

Date: 2017
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