relating to patenting, robust conclusions regarding the empirical consequences for technological innovation of changes in …

development of new energy technologies (Popp, 2017). Energy innovation tends to consist of a series of partially overlapping …

externalities but also by innovation market failures. This paper maps the economics literature on innovation market failures and …

The 'quality' of novel technological innovations is extremely variable, and the ability to measure innovation quality … is essential to sensible, evidence-based policy. Patents, an often vital precursor to a commercialised innovation, share …

This paper estimates the social returns to investments in innovation. The disparate spillovers associated with … innovation, including imitation, business stealing, and intertemporal spillovers, have made calculations of the social returns … under conservative assumptions, innovation efforts produce social benefits that are many multiples of the investment costs …

innovation in a socially desirable substitute. Evolutionary theory emphasizes the possibility of innovation waves associated with … products. It does appear, however, that dominant designs did have substantial positive innovation effects. More specifically … innovation effects at the firm level than among individual inventors …

burden mechanism suggests that the nature of innovation is changing, with negative implications for long-run economic growth …

have the potential to advance scholarship on the life course of innovation with implications for workplace policies …

"In advanced economies like the United States, innovation has long been recognized as a central force for increasing … socioeconomic prosperity and improving human health. Today, U.S. government policy seeks to promote innovation through a suite of … Business Innovation Research program to the National Science Foundation. This book surveys key dimensions of innovation policy …