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post-ittoday at 5:06 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Patents incentivize investment in R&D.

In theory or in real life?


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shh_labstoday at 7:46 PM

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

otterleytoday at 6:45 PM

In real life.