-produced penicillin, antimalarials, and a flu vaccine. We draw on this episode to discuss the economics of crisis innovation. Since the …

This report surveys the empirical literature from economics and related fields on patents and innovation. In particular …, it reviews and synthesizes the empirical evidence on patents and first-generation innovation, the disclosure function of … patents, and patents and follow-on innovation. The main results are summarized in fifteen charts.Institutional subscribers to …

-on innovation …

impact by serving as a new general-purpose “method of invention” that can reshape the nature of the innovation process and … stimulating research productivity and innovation-oriented competition going forward …

segmentation) shaped the underlying incen- tives for innovation in the PC industry during the mid to late 1980s …

life, while laying the foundation for postwar innovation policy. Scholars and policymakers have appealed to the wartime … innovation effort: priority setting, selecting and engaging researchers, a funding mechanism, coordinating research efforts, and … framework for decision-making. We conclude by discussing other lessons from OSRD, such as what makes crisis innovation policy …

from pharmaceutical innovation. Extending previous studies of the welfare benefits from innovation (Trajtenberg, 1990 …

innovation infrastructure (cross-cutting factors which contribute broadly to innovativeness throughout the economy), the … environment for innovation in its leading industrial clusters, and the strength of linkages between these two areas. We use this …