[GSDI Legal Econ] Do patents promote innovation? And copyright, creativity?

[Yola Georgiadou]

Kate, thanks for this information!
 
A relevant philosophical question for this workshop could be: Do patents and copyrights really exist?  ;-)
 
Yola

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http://www.urrutiaelejalde.org/WinterWorkshop/2007.html <https://webmail.itc.nl/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.urrutiaelejalde.org/WinterWorkshop/2007.html> 

VII WW on Economics and Philosophy (2007)

Do patents promote innovation? And copyright creativity?

A workshop organized by the the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation at 

the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
21-22 May 2007

Madrid, Spain

Call for papers: 


The conference will focus on three sets of "subtopics": 
1. Patents, how they work in theory and in practice
2. Copyright, how it works in theory and in practice
3. Intellectual Property: is this a useful concept, from a legal,
philosophical and economic point of view?

Send a 1000 words abstract before February 28th to 

Michele Boldrin (mboldrin [at] artsci.wustl.edu). 

Acceptance will be notified by March 15th.






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