Abstract
Inventive property rights (IPR) issues became very important after the announcement of the metaverse. As in the metaverse, the traditional laws of IPR are applicable, and research on new laws that are dedicated to the metaverse has started. In this research paper, we analyze development in this area. We use the Scopus database to examine how metaverse entrepreneurship and IPR rights have evolved over time. We used different parameters such as collaboration index, citation analysis, and keyword co-occurrences to measure the growth in the respective area. This study’s results support the idea that studies examining this issue have been mushrooming in recent years. In addition, new issues and areas of study on intellectual property rights have emerged due to the analysis.
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Gupta, B.B., Gaurav, A., Arya, V. et al. The evolution of intellectual property rights in metaverse based Industry 4.0 paradigms. Int Entrep Manag J (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-023-00940-8
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