Hall, Bronwyn H.
[Verfasser:in]
;
Helmers, Christian
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Rogers, Mark
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Sena, Vania
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]National Bureau of Economic Research
The Choice between Formal and Informal Intellectual Property
Erschienen:
Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2012
Erschienen in:NBER working paper series ; no. w17983
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1 Online-Ressource
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Englisch
DOI:
10.3386/w17983
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We survey the economic literature, both theoretical and empirical, on the choice of intellectual property protection by firms. Our focus is on the tradeoffs between using patents and disclosing versus the use of secrecy, although we also look briefly at the use of other means of formal intellectual property protection