interpretative achievements stemming from e.g. the economics of innovation, industrial economics, epistemilogy of knowledge, economic …

and in particular of Intellectual Property Right (IPR) as incentives for technological innovation. We start with a … non-market institutions in the innovation process. Next, we examine the recent changes in the IPR regimes and their … influence upon both rates of patenting and underlying rates of innovation. The evidence broadly suggests that, first, IPRs are …

rates of innovation. Indeed, there is circumstantial evidence to the opposite. And, indeed, a sound theoretic consideration …

This work prepared for B. Hall and N. Rosenberg (eds.) Handbook of Innovation, Elsevier (2010), lays out the basic … the firm in industries where technological and organizational innovation is important. Indeed a large literature has grown … innovation and diffusion affect growth and survival probabilities of heterogeneous firms, and, relatedly, the determinants of …