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 Dut...

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.