Preserving Free Innovators’ Legal Rights
Preserving Free Innovators’ Legal Rights
This chapter reviews household sector innovators' legal rights to engage in innovation and innovation diffusion. It reveals that free innovators have very strong legal rights, at least in the United States, with respect to both innovation development and innovation diffusion. Despite their generally favorable situation, however, free innovators' freedom to operate is frequently curtailed, and free innovation costs are often raised, by regulations or legislation promulgated for other purposes—often without awareness that free innovation even exists. To conclude, this chapter makes specific suggestions for improving this scenario, and also proposes an increase in awareness of free innovation as well as the benefits it brings to society.
Keywords: legal rights, United States, freedom to operate, government regulations, social awareness, free innovators' legal rights
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