Knowledge, Patents, Power: The Making of a Patent System in the Dutch Republic

By Marius Buning

In Knowledge, Patents, Power, Marius Buning tells the complex story of how the emergence of a Dutch patent regime is related to wider issues concerning governmental control and innovation. Buning analyses the institutional framework in which "innovative knowledge" could develop in the Dutch Republic from a variety of perspectives. This is not only a comprehensive study of patent law and its administrative and legal framework during the first four decades of the Dutch republic, it also opens up new perspectives on a wide range of issues in cultural and political history-- from truth claims in early modern science to issues concerning mercantilism and Dutch seventeenth-century processes of state formation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004320393
• ISBN13: 9789004320390
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 300 Pages