framework in which every innovation builds on previous inventions the standard argument for granting patent protection is no … Free/Open Source Software (FOSS). In a seminal paper Bessen and Maskin (2006) argue that in a dynamic sequential innovation …

Innovation occurs within ... …

This paper studies a simple model of experimentation and innovation. Our analysis suggests that patents may improve the … equilibria). In contrast to patents, subsidies to experimentation, research, or innovation cannot typically achieve this … project to implement. A successful innovation can be copied by other firms. Symmetric equilibria (where actions do not depend …

This paper studies a simple model of experimentation and innovation. Our analysis suggests that patents may improve the … equilibria). In contrast to patents, subsidies to experimentation, research, or innovation cannot typically achieve this … project to implement. A successful innovation can be copied by other firms. Symmetric equilibria (where actions do not depend …

This paper studies a simple model of experimentation and innovation. Our analysis suggests that patents may improve the … equilibria). In contrast to patents, subsidies to experimentation, research, or innovation cannot typically achieve this … project to implement. A successful innovation can be copied by other firms. Symmetric equilibria (where actions do not depend …

about promoting innovation? I argue that empirical progress in patent law depends on greater policy diversity (rather than … more robust theory development about the mechanisms by which innovation policies work. This pluralistic, evidence …Many scholars have wrestled with what I call the “first-order question” in patent law: What policies should we adopt to …