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 …

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 …