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Innovative Businesses and Breakthrough Technologies - The Legal Issues

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States15.616
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2004English
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15.616 is an introduction to business law which covers the fundamentals, including contracts, liability, regulation, employment, and corporations, with an in-depth treatment of the legal issues relating to breakthrough technologies, including the legal framework of R&D, the commercialization of new high-technology products in start-ups and mature companies, and the liability and regulatory implications of new products and innovative business models.

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