![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508035814im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Markets Outperform Patents in Promoting Intellectual Discovery, Say Caltech-led Economists
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March 5, 2009
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When it comes to intellectual curiosity and creativity, a market economy in which inventors can buy and sell shares of the key components of their discoveries actually beats out the winner-takes-all world of patent rights as a motivating force, according to a California Institute of Technology-led team of researchers.
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Source California Institute of Technology
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