Prizes are receiving increasing attention in policy and entrepreneurial communities as means to promote innovation, but …

Policy and entrepreneurial communities are increasingly promoting innovation by using prizes but their distinguishing …

information structure, meshing into elaborate networks. Patenting and other strategies to appropriate benefits from innovation may … therefore be more successful than has been conceded generally. Implications extend from domestic innovation to world trade and …

books reviewed, in terms of the five themes of Prometheus, i.e. Technological Change, Innovation, Information Economics …

quantifiable—innovation, and the competitiveness that is assumed to spring from innovation—on the grounds that these, too, are … outputs of research. The part that patents actually play in innovation has become confused with their representational role … the patent attorney in innovation would seem to be a reasonable measure of the intensification of the patent-innovation …

This paper reviews the contribution that Prometheus has made over the past 20 years to the literature on innovation …, innovation policy and technological change. I offer first a necessarily subjective view of how the research literatures of … innovation and innovation policy have developed in recent decades. I then compare that account with an interpretation of the …