Leveraging the Commons to Foster Innovation, Access and Affordability

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4946
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Bollier, David
Conference:	Biotechnology and Intellectual Property: Reinventing the Commons
Location:	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Conf. Date:	September 25, 2005
Date:	2005
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4946
Sector:	Information & Knowledge
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Subject(s):	intellectual property rights innovation information open access
Abstract:	From p. 2: "Intellectual property protection can provide significant and necessary incentives to creators and businesses to invest in new works. But increasingly, the propertization of knowledge is becoming an end in itself, disconnected from any concern with actual social outcomes..."

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