Interest in intellectual property and other institutions that promote innovation exploded during the 1990s. Innovation … and Incentives provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the economics of innovation, suitable for teaching at … levels of study. Innovation and Incentives presents the historical, legal, and institutional contexts in which innovation …

innovation process. This annual series, sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, brings the work of leading … industry; a new mechanism to create economic incentives for producers of digital goods that both stimulates innovation and …

The economic importance of innovation brings with it an active debate on the impact public policy has on the innovation … effect of taxes on entrepreneurship; and how to incorporate innovation into the analysis of business mergers. These papers …, innovation, and the commercialization of new technologies. …