innovation in high-technology markets. Traditionally, regulators focused on whether companies artificially hiked prices or … reduced output. Now, they're increasingly likely to look first at whether corporate behavior aids or impedes innovation. In … this paper, we examine whether innovation has displaced short-term price effects as the focus of antitrust enforcement by …

breadth, and in Section IV we turn to the special problems that arise when innovation is cumulative. In Section V, we …

higher rewards where "ideas are scarce." We then explore how rewards should be structured when the value of an innovation … comes from its applications, and ideas for the innovation may be more or less scarce than ideas for the applications. …

decision itself. This paper discusses the likely impact of these patents on innovation. It first reviews the facts about … system and innovation. It concludes by finding some consensus in the literature about the problems associated with this …