Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- The setting of the problem -- Patent statistics -- The role of intellectual …

incentive in driving innovation and prosperity. A review of patent box regimes around the world is provided, with summaries of …. Research and development incentives are therefore very important, and patent box regimes are becoming more and more popular …Innovation is widely recognized as the key to sustainable economic growth. Because people and projects are mobile in …

innovation. Nevertheless, the relationship between patents and economic growth remains uncertain. This relationship, which forms …

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … lower than the social plannerś benchmark, which suggests a role for patent policy. We focus on a "non-infringing inventive … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …