but sometimes erode religious beliefs; (ii) a government, endogenously in power, that can allow such innovations to spread …

economy whose government uses optimal taxation to provide a public good, defense. The East is a centrally planned economy …. Utility depends on consumption, leisure and defense; defense is a characteristic which is an increasing function of the …

, incumbents' valuations of innovations are less negatively affected by increased competition than entrants' profits. This, in turn …, but not too strict, merger policy tends to increase the incentive for innovations for sale by ensuring the bidding … competition for the innovation, without reducing the total rents for innovations too much. …

an increase in either the size or the frequency of innovations, from human capital accumulation through learning … of innovations or through introducing learning by doing with positive external effects across sectors) introduces new …

This paper considers a dynamic North South model of international trade and innovations in which firms can endogenously …

This Paper presents a model of innovations and economic growth, in which patent rates emerge endogenously, as a result …-inefficient, as too many researchers look for the easy innovations, while too few search for the difficult ones. The third result is …

How can we explain the success of cooperative networks of firms that share innovations, such as Silicon Valley or the … Open Source community? This Paper shows that if innovations are cumulative, making an invention publicly available to a … equilibrium where all innovations are made public is shown to exist under certain conditions. Furthermore, such equilibrium does …