71.  The limitations on the effectiveness of patents in protecting new knowledge arise from the fact that patents disclose information which can enable imitators to invent around them.

72.  Although it is almost certainly the case that most firms are not able to appropriate all the returns to innovation via licensing, this does not imply that many firms cannot generate a satisfactory stream of returns in this manner (particularly if they are not well placed to exploit the new knowledge themselves).

73.  For over a decade I lived with this new knowledge and with the ethical dilemma surrounding my own pursuit of insider research.

74.  The notation of a classification scheme is important, and in the context of the knowledge explosion one requirement is that this notation should be" hospitable", that is, that it should allow for addition at any point in the scheme in the light of new knowledge and new concepts.

75.  There was so much new knowledge in science, and degrees in science came to be seen as an alternative to degrees in classics or mathematics rather than as something to be done afterwards as an optional extra, or taken as a merely voluntary course of lectures.

76.  Is it simply that new knowledge keeps being added to professional fields without old knowledge being taken away?

77.  The enrichment of the Library's printed collections by selecting appropriately from the constant flow of new knowledge, as well as completing gaps in those publications already represented in the collections built up over the last three hundred years of the Library's development, is of paramount importance for scholars and researchers.