This highly original book represents a major advance in the use of patents to compare countries' technological … competitiveness. It tabulates and analyses 280,000 United States patents from countries across the world over a ten year period …. Specifically, these patents were granted to "not-for-profit" entities (mainly universities and research institutes), firms with no …

Innovation and Institutions is an extensive elaboration on the make up of systems of innovation. It examines why some … countries are more innovative than others, why national styles of innovation differ, and goes on to explore why some countries …

illustrate that patents are at the heart of the economic development of multinationals, start-ups, and the rise of new … in it, drawing a portrait of contemporary capitalism in which the grip of law threatens the pioneers of innovation … for postgraduate students and researchers of the economics of innovation and IP law. Its original empirical analysis will …

(including the internet) and mobile telecommunications (including the mobile internet). A sectoral systems of innovation approach … emergence and evolution of the sectoral system of innovation of the internet and mobile telecommunications. It will be an … innovation is evolving and how previously independent systems are now converging. In particular, they address the question of …

The Economic Valuation of Patents provides an original and essential analysis of patent valuation, presenting the main … methodologies to value patents in different contexts …

Review, 85 (3), February, 697-754 -- Michael A. Heller and Rebecca S. Eisenberg (1998), 'Can Patents Deter Innovation? The … Douglas A. Smith (1980), 'Patents, Prospects, and Economic Surplus: A Comment', Journal of Law and Economics, XXIII (1), April …), February, 305-50 -- John F. Duffy (2004), 'Rethinking the Prospect Theory of Patents', University of Chicago Law Review, 71 (2 …

students and scholars of industrial organization, economics of innovation and technical change, and management of technology …

1. Digital development in Europe : a theoretical framework -- 2. The internet in everyday life -- 3. A metrics for …