The Italian and European regulatory framework for patents would benefit from further improvements in order to foster dynamic competition between Italian firms. At the national level the exclusive allocation of the right to patent inventions to universities, rather than to researchers, would...

This book challenges the received view about antitrust policy's alleged instrumental public interest role. The purpose of this book is to show why, contrary to conventional wisdom, antitrust policy does not support market institutions; on the contrary, it is rooted on antimarket traditions. The...