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Matching demand and supply in a weightless economy : market-driven creativity with and without IPRs

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …

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The weightless economy in economic development

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income - the growing weightless economy - influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ''distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...

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Ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK: evidence from patents microdata

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …

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Do inventors talk to strangers? on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...

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Digital goods and the new economy

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …

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Persona rights for user-generated content: a normative framework for privacy and intellectual property regulation

Shepherd, Tamara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This article introduces the term “persona rights” as a normative conceptual framework for analyzing the language of regulatory debates around privacy and intellectual property online, mainly from a Canadian perspective. In using the concept of persona rights to interrogate and critique the...

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Barron, Anne - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

The dominant explanatory/justificatory framework informing scholarly commentary on copyright law, policy and theory today – certainly in the US – is law and economics. From this perspective, copyright law exists to underpin markets in certain categories of ‘information good’ (copyright...

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Incentives and invention in universities

Lach, Saul; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

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Damages and injunctions in protecting proprietary research tools

Schankerman, Mark; Scotchmer, Suzanne - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

much delay is permitted before infringement is enjoined. We also show that, for patents on end-user products, the ranking …

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The enactment of risk categories: organizing and re-organizing risk management practices in the energy industry

Scott, Susan V.; Perry, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

management software “A-Trade” was part of the shift from a traditional engineer-led culture of risk cognition to market …

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