Cohendet, Patrick; Farcot, Matthieu; Pénin, Julien - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2009
The traditional perception of patents puts the emphasis on their importance to exclude imitators and to restore incentives to invent. This view is far too restrictive and at variance with many empirical and theoretical works. We show that these contradictions can be overcome by shifting from a...