Patents versus patenting: implications of intellectual property protection for biological research

Zhen Lei, Rakhi Juneja and Brian Wright ()

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Abstract: A new survey shows scientists consider the proliferation of intellectual property protectionto have a strongly negative effect on research.

Keywords: patents; biology; intellectual property; material transfer agreements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 I2 O3 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-01
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Published in Nature Biotechnology 1.27(2009): pp. 36-40

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