Researchers aiming to invent and develop innovative products and processes need to be continuously updated about at least a minimum fraction of the last relevant innovations. If the flow of new ideas is too intense researchers spend most of their time reading and hearing. This never lasting...

Despite the huge economic value of the innovations, in European countries the yet unpatented results of the R&D activity can be stolen with little risk of criminal sanctions. By considering the anti-industrial espionage legislation in Europe, it turns out that no country has a law comparable to...

This paper introduces the monographic issue of Rivista di Politica Economica on “Intellectual Property, Competition, and Growth”. It presents the twelve contributions selected after a Callfor-Papers. The contributions deal with different facets of the protection of intellectual property...