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Innovation without IP

Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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Tim Kastelle has a great post on Innovation without Intellectual Property Protection prompted by this TED talk by Johanna Blakely.

It turns out there are lots of huge industries that manage without much IP as well as examples of where just being continuously inventive is itself the best protection.

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