Patent trolls appropriate profits from innovation solely by enforcing patents against infringers.They are often …

scientistscontribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, inturn, contribute slightly less to … industrial innovation than recent university graduates. Bycontrast, immobile workers add little to the innovative activity of … their employer. We also findthat the contribution of mobile R&D workers to innovation depreciates fairly rapidly …

This paper provides new information, not available from other sources, on the characteristics ofthe innovation process …

innovation and imitation incentives.Surprisingly from an economic standpoint, however, various calculation methodsfor damages are …