Policymakers all over the world claim: no innovation without protection. For more than a century, critics have objected …. It is possible to model innovation as a prisoner's dilemma between potential innovators, and to interpret intellectual …

team size is shown: more developers may increase the total profit of an innovation (before paying the involved people) but …

that the larger companies benefit from a higher likelihood of a subsidy receipt is offset by the phenomenon that smaller …

In the economics profession there is a fierce debate whether industrial and innovation policy should be targeted to …

of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it overemphasizes work and does little to encourage … care subsidies for child development. In this paper, we provide a systematic assessment of the impact of subsidy receipt on … relationship between child care subsidies and child development. In particular, our results suggest that subsidy receipt in the …

focus is on the incidence of the subsidy, i.e., we ask how much of the € 2,500 buyer subsidy is captured by the supply … subsidy amount. However, the incidence was heterogeneous across price segments. Subsidized buyers of cheap cars paid more than … comparable buyers who did not receive the subsidy, e.g. for cars of € 12,000 car dealers reaped about 8% of the scrappage prime …