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Premium Inventions: Patents and Prizes as Incentive Mechanisms in Britain and the United States, 1750-1930

In: Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy

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  • B. Zorina Khan, 2008. "Premium Inventions: Patents and Prizes as Incentive Mechanisms in Britain and the United States, 1750-1930," NBER Chapters, in: Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy, pages 205-234, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    3. Michael Kremer, 1998. "Patent Buyouts: A Mechanism for Encouraging Innovation," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 113(4), pages 1137-1167.
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    1. Billington, Stephen D., 2018. "Patent costs and the value of inventions: Explaining patenting behaviour between England, Ireland and Scotland, 1617-1852," QUCEH Working Paper Series 2018-10, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History.

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