” 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 …—the number, size, and character of firms in an industry. However, such theory only explains one facet of industry structure. This …

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 examines the implications of Open Source License (OSL) selection on software innovation, and suggests how …

Novelty value is one of the legal requirements for a patentable innovation but it has been given relatively little … attention in the literature. It is often abstracted away by assuming that any innovation is patentable. We study the optimal … novelty requirement in a model where ideas are scarce, and where turning an idea into an innovation requires resources. We …

innovation. We present novel data on the frequency with which innovative German firms encounter problems with access to … intellectual property (IP) for innovation. While only a small percentage of all firms report halting or not starting innovation …

in intellectual property rights on the patenting and innovation strategies of Chinese and Western firms operating in … property rights and legal institutions that foster R&D and innovation, and when Western firms gain longer operational … informal institutional environments. It also provides important implications for policy and innovation strategies for …

Innovation is crucial to economic growth – the essential path for lifting much of the world population out of dire … poverty and for maintaining the living standard of those who already have. To stimulate innovation, the legal system has to … institutions supported for the specific purpose of stimulating innovation. Whilst the protection of secrets has not changed very …

using a patentability requirement--a minimum innovation size required for patents. A patentability requirement can stimulate … to innovation …