2011/17 | LEM Working Paper Series | |
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Patent regimes, firms and the commodification of knowledge |
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Benjamin Coriat, Olivier Weinstein |
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firms, financialization, institutional complementarities, knowledge based economy, labor law, property rights
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O34, P1
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Abstract | ||
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This paper analyses the evolution of the intellectual property regime
(IPR), and more precisely the patent regime, in the USA since the
19-th century. To do so, we consider intellectual property laws within
the context of wider changes in capitalism, focusing on two main
historical phases: firstly, the period covering the formation and
development of 'corporate capitalism' dominated by large corporations
and then the new phase, which opened up in the 1980s, marked by the
rise to power of finance. From a perspective of institutional
complementarities, we seek to show how the characteristics and
implications of patent regimes can only be understood in relation to
changes in the main institutional forms of capitalism: forms of the
firm, the status of labour (the 'wage-labour nexus') and market forms.
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