innovators are not protected against others appropriating their ideas, incentives for innovation are suboptimally low. Now in … most industries for most potential users, appropriating a foreign innovation is itself an investment decision fraught with … cost and risk. Nonetheless standard theory predicts too little innovation. Arguably the problem is exacerbated by …

innovators are not protected against others appropriating their ideas, incentives for innovation are suboptimally low. Now, in … most industries and for most potential users, appropriating a foreign innovation is itself an investment decision fraught … with cost and risk. Nonetheless, standard theory predicts too little innovation. Arguably the problem is exacerbated by the …