Why weak patents? Rational ignorance or pro-"customer" Tilt?
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Industrial Organization; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-INO-2009-05-16 (Innovation)
- NEP-IPR-2009-05-16 (Intellectual Property Rights)
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