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Amy L. Landers

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2016

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The Interconnections Between Entrepreneurship, Science, And The Patent System, Amy L. Landers Dec 2015

The Interconnections Between Entrepreneurship, Science, And The Patent System, Amy L. Landers

Amy L. Landers

The recognition that innovation drives the creation of new knowledge is both significant and an underappreciated aspect of patent theory. A full assessment of the impact of the most recent recent patentability standards cannot be performed without examining the relationships between science, the patent system, and innovation within a more realistic context. To do so, the system must loosen its hold on the linear model of innovation. 

More broadly, these insights allow us to think about the patent system in ways that do not echo the traditional narrative that places science and innovation at the opposite ends of a continuum. …