Knowledge, patents, power : the making of a patent system in the Dutch republic

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Full Title:: Knowledge, patents, power : the making of a patent system in the Dutch republic / by Marius Buning
Series Titles:: Knowledge infrastructure and knowledge economy, volume 7
History of science and medicine library. volume 7.

Subjects:: Patent laws and legislation--Netherlands--History--16th century
Patent laws and legislation--Netherlands--History--17th century

Table of Contents:: Introduction -- Inventing a system -- Administration and management -- Merchants of ideas -- Legitimate monopolies -- Competition and efficiency -- Conclusion.
Summary:: "In Knowledge, Patents, Power, Marius Buning tells the complex story of how the emergence of a Dutch patent regime is related to wider issues concerning governmental control and innovation. Buning analyses the institutional framework in which "innovative knowledge" could develop in the Dutch Republic from a variety of perspectives. This is not only a comprehensive study of patent law and its administrative and legal framework during the first four decades of the Dutch republic, it also opens up new perspectives on a wide range of issues in cultural and political history- from truth claims in early modern science to issues concerning mercantilism and Dutch seventeenth-century processes of state formation"--
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: pages cm.
General Note:: Based on author's thesis (doctoral - European University Institute, 2013) issued under title: Privileged knowledge : inventions and the legitimization of knowledge in the early Dutch Republic (ca. 1581-1621).
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