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Comment by post-it

4 hours ago

> Patents incentivize investment in R&D.

In theory or in real life?

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post-it

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shh_labs  1 hour ago

In real life, although the amount of incentive is different in different industries; and if one's main experience is in an industry where the amount of incentive is low, it's easy to imagine it's the same everywhere

otterley  2 hours ago

In real life.

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