Knowledge, Patents, Power

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Knowledge, Patents, Power is written by Marius Buning and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004320423 (ISBN 10) and 9789004320420 (ISBN 13).

In Knowledge, Patents, Power, 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.