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The appreciation of the joint effects of the limited exhaustibility of knowledge and of the knowledge appropriability trade-off calls for the design of a new knowledge policy framework based upon the differentiation of both public subsidies with respect to their actual additionality and intellectual property rights with respect to terms and levels of exclusivity.
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Antonelli, C. (2018). Knowledge-Specific Patents and the Additionality Constraint. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_734-1
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