” commercialization. However, when focusing on downstream industry segments that bring patented technologies to market—“innovation” in an … patent-intensive, and legal and economic theory has long explored the role of patents in shaping industry structure … concentration ultimately harms innovation, efficiency, consumer welfare, and democratic representation. It argues that patent law …

This essay reviews Michael Carrier's recent book, Innovation in the 21st Century. While the book is well-written and …-relevant "innovation market." The essay notes that there is considerable uncertainty about the relationship between regulation and … innovation, and suggests that Carrier is insufficiently sensitive to the limitations of his analysis …

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We apply this theory … innovations. Furthermore, it leads to strategic duplication of the entrant's innovation by the incumbent. These negative … innovation effects of restrictive acquisition policy have to be weighed against the pro-competitive effects of preserving …

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We apply this theory … innovations. Furthermore, it leads to strategic duplication of the entrant's innovation by the incumbent. These negative … innovation effects of restrictive acquisition policy have to be weighed against the pro-competitive effects of preserving …

strategies. Robotics competitions and prizes provide for an important incentive to innovation. Patents are used to exclude third … analyzed the developments of robotics innovation. This paper closes this gap by analyzing how innovation in robotics is taking … located in the US, Europe, but increasingly also in the Republic of Korea and China. The robotics innovation ecosystem builds …

-compatibility have become critical to promoting innovation and competition. Standards are typically created by voluntary organizations …

the size of the innovation is small; this occurs regardless of the participations in the competing companies and how many … innovate. If the innovation is very large, the owners may be better off with exclusive licenses …

find that firms with more minority directors are associated with greater innovation output. Using patent … greater collaboration among inventors of different races, which lead to more patents and patents with greater market value …