Inventing a system -- Administration and management -- Merchants of ideas -- Legitimate monopolies -- Competition and efficiency
Summary
"Marius Buning tells the complex story of how the emergence of a Dutch patent regime is related to wider issues concerning governmental control and innovation. Buning analyses the institutional framework in which "innovative knowledge" could develop in the Dutch Republic from a variety of perspectives. This is not only a comprehensive study of patent law and its administrative and legal framework during the first four decades of the Dutch republic, it also opens up new perspectives on a wide range of issues in cultural and political history- from truth claims in early modern science to issues concerning mercantilism and Dutch seventeenth-century processes of state formation"-- Provided by the publisher
Notes
Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--European University Institute, 2013, issued under title: Privileged knowledge : inventions and the legitimization of knowledge in the early Dutch Republic (ca. 1581-1621)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 14, 2022)
