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Trade Secrets : Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power / Doron S. Ben-Atar.

During the first decades of America's existence as a nation, private citizens, voluntary associations, and government officials encouraged the smuggling of European inventions and artisans to the New World. At the same time, the young republic was developing policies that set new standards for...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Business intelligence > United States > History.
Piracy (Copyright) > United States > History.
Technological innovations > United States > History.
Trade secrets > United States > History.
Business intelligence.
Piracy (Copyright)
Technological innovations.
Trade secrets.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Knowledge as Property in the International State System
  • Chapter 2. The Battle over Technology within the Empire
  • Chapter 3. Benjamin Franklin and America's Technology Deficit
  • Chapter 4. After the Revolution: ''The American Seduction of Machines and Artisans''
  • Chapter 5. Official Orchestration of Technology Smuggling
  • Chapter 6. Constructing the American Understanding of Intellectual Property
  • Chapter 7. The Path to Crystal Palace
  • Notes
  • Index.

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