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Over time, stronger patent regimes, newer technologies such as biotechnology and changing
industrial structures … (Mansfield, 1998, p. 174).
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According to the OECD (2004, p.22), there has been a rapid rise in patent grants in
biotechnology …. In the time period 1990 to 2000, the number of patents granted in
biotechnology rose by 15% a year at the USPTO, and by …