@misc{10481/77434,
year = {2011},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/77434},
abstract = {This paper tells the early history of penicillin patenting in Spain. Patents turn
out to be useful instruments for analysing the management of knowledge and its circulation
in different professional and geographical domains. They protected knowledge while
contributing to standardisation. Patents also ensured quality and guaranteed reliability in
manufacturing, delivering and prescribing new drugs. They gained special prominence by
allowing the creation of a network in which political, economic and business, industrial
power, public health and international cooperation fields came together. The main source
of information used for this purpose has been the earliest patent applications for penicillin
in Spain between 1948 and 1950, which are kept in the Historical Archives of the Oficina
Española de Patentes y Marcas. The study of these patents for penicillin shows their role as
agents in introducing this drug in Spain.},
publisher = {Universidad de Granada},
keywords = {History},
keywords = {Antibiotics},
keywords = {Penicillin},
keywords = {Patents},
keywords = {Circulation of knowledge},
keywords = {Regulation},
keywords = {Spain},
keywords = {1950s},
keywords = {Historia},
keywords = {Antibióticos},
keywords = {Patentes},
keywords = {Circulación del conocimiento},
keywords = {Regulación},
keywords = {España},
keywords = {Década de los 50},
title = {Regulation and the circulation of knowledge: Penicillin patents in Spain},
author = {Romero de Pablos, Ana},
}