Innovation policy can be a crucial component of governments' responses to crises. Because speed is a paramount … objective, crisis innovation may also require different policy tools than innovation policy in non-crisis times, raising … distinct questions and tradeoffs. In this paper, we survey the U.S. policy response to two crises where innovation was crucial …

-produced penicillin, antimalarials, and a flu vaccine. We draw on this episode to discuss the economics of crisis innovation. Since the …

We consider a model of innovation that distinguishes between ideas and innovations. While innovation responds to … incentives, ideas are a scarce resource that provide an exogenous constraint on the rate of innovation. We investigate how the … optimal reward structure is shaped by the scarcity of ideas. Substitute ideas for innovation in the model arrive to random …

We investigate optimal rewards in an R&D model where substitute ideas for innovation arrive to random recipients at …

We investigate rewards to R&D in a model where substitute ideas for innovation arrive to random recipients at random …

Innovation policy can be a crucial component of governments' responses to crises. Because speed is a paramount … objective, crisis innovation may also require different policy tools than innovation policy in non-crisis times, raising … distinct questions and tradeoffs. In this paper, we survey the U.S. policy response to two crises where innovation was crucial …