Knowledge, patents, power : : the making of a patent system in the Dutch republic / / Marius Buning.

• Superior document: Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy ; 7
• VerfasserIn: Buning, Marius, 1979-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy ; 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (297 pages)
• 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).

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- Preliminary -- Scope and objectives -- Outline -- 1 Inventing a System -- The Dutch Revolt: Setting the stage -- Patents in the Habsburg Netherlands -- The political organization of the Dutch Republic -- Patents amidst constitutional confusion -- Conclusions -- 2 Administrative Practices -- The application process -- Examinations and rewards -- Areas of usage: war, trade and industry -- Conclusions -- 3. Legitimate Monopolies -- Historical backgrounds -- Privileges as a legal instrument -- Experimental practices -- Conclusions -- 4. Merchants of Ideas -- The dawn of projects -- Venture capital -- The applicants -- Costumers and clients -- Conclusions -- 5 The Circulation of Knowledge -- Inventions and discoveries -- Novelties and imitation -- Competition and friendly exchange -- Notions of efficiency -- Conclusions -- 6. Conclusions: A Dutch Republic of Patents -- Patents and the production of knowledge -- Republican patents -- The aftereffects -- Bibliography -- Index.