Owning the future / Seth Shulman.
Owning the future / Seth Shulman.
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N338.064/36
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English
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xi, 240 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. I. Knowledge Wars. 1. Gold Rush in the Idea Economy. 2. The New Wealth of Nations. 3. Staking Our Claim -- Pt. II. Dispatches from the Knowledge Frontier. 4. The New Medical Licenses. 5. Softwars. 6. Soybean Dreams. 7. Taborsky's Lament. 8. Panning for Drugs -- Pt. III. Common Knowledge. 9. The...
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Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
1999.
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Veteran science journalist Seth Shulman takes us on a shocking journey through today's battles for control over the intangible new assets - genes, software, databases, and scientific information - that make up the lifeblood of the new economy. We meet doctors who sue colleagues for using new medical procedures they claim to own. We find university...
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Owning the future / Seth Shulman.
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-223) and index.
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N338.064/36
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74VvzM4EydvA
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0395841755 :
9780395841754
0395841755
9780395841754 :
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338.064
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991009345509702626
