Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being proprietary.
We turn now to a discussion of resource fungibility and proprietarity.
2014, Bob Edwards, Melinda Kane, “Resource mobilization and social and political movements”, in Hein-Anton van der Heijden, editor, Handbook of Political Citizenship and Social Movements, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 2182 more examples
The degree of product independence illuminates the extent of an action model's proprietarity.
2001, Heinz-Dieter Knöll, Lukas W. H. Kühl, Roland W. A. Kühl, Robert Moreton, “View The Status Quo: Review of Life-Cycle Approaches”, in Optimising Business Performance with Standard Software Systems: How to reorganise Workflows by Chance of Implementing new ERP-Systems (SAP®, BAANTM, Peoplesoft®, Navision® ...) or new Releases, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 173Perhaps these principles will bleed into other fields of biology, leading to erosion of the traditional emphasis on proprietarity.
2017, Andrew W. Torrance, “Better to Give Than to Receive: An Uncommon Commons in Synthetic Biology”, in Brett M. Frischmann, Katherine J. Strandburg, Michael J. Madison, editors, Governing Medical Knowledge Commons, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 221Synonyms: proprietariness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being proprietary.
Origin
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