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       2018-11-15T20:54:47Z
       
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       Do Patents Encourage or Hinder Innovation? The Case of the Steam Engine - till 1800 Watt held the engine monopoly and prevented innovations. When it expired, the reaction of the Cornish miners was to freely collaborate, without any kind of economic reward, to improve the technology, and publish it in monthly journals, as today in open-sourcehttps://fee.org/articles/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/