The paper analyses Norwegian 19th century patentees. A special focus is on the affiliation or relationship of the … patentees to the manufacturing industries, business and the wider economy. A main question is whether the inventors were what … is that even the individual patentees, that comprised the majority of all patentees, had strong associations with …

the patent itself can adversely affect the exclusive rights granted by the patent. This is because non-competing patentees …

? Literature has given some light on the decision of individual patentees to establish a new venture but either these studies … examine a specific group of patentees or cover national patentees’ population without distinguishing between individual and … firm patentees. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to literature which aims at the detection of factors affecting …