Golden Helix or Tangled Web? How Gene Patent Landscape Impacts Knowledge Use and Follow-on Innovation

• Main Authors: HUANG, Kenneth Guang-Lih, MURRAY, Fiona
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: Knowledge; Patent Strategy; IP Institutions; Innovations; Genetics; Intellectual Property Law; Technology and Innovation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/987; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1249522
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Despite the long-held belief of positive effect of patenting on public research and commercialization of science, scholars now assert its detrimental impacts on follow-on innovation. Using human gene patents, our study contributes to literature on patent design and effects of patents on public resea...