Institutionalising Patents in Nineteenth-Century Spain

• Main Author: Pretel, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History,
• Subjects: Economic history.; Political economy.; Law and economics.; Europe-Economic conditions.; Culture-Economic aspects.; Economic History.; International Political Economy.; Law and Economics.; European Economics.; Cultural Economics.

This book examines the development of the Spanish patent system in the years 1826 to 1902, providing a fundamental reassessment of its evolution in an international context. The Spanish case is particularly interesting because of this country's location on the so-called European periphery and a...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Institutionalising Backwardness
• Chapter 2: Making the System
• Chapter 3: Organising the System
• Chapter 4: The International Dimension
• Chapter 5: The Colonial Dimension
• Chapter 6: Inventing Late Industrialisation.