This essay is the introduction to a forthcoming volume entitled, Regulating Innovation: Competition Policy and Patent … relationship between regulation - both through competition policy and patent law - and innovation, and the corresponding … competition or facilitating innovation. This essay and the chapters in this book, approach this critical set of problems from an …

opportunities and challenges for competition policy …

Innovation is a flabby concept in antitrust practice, only coming into play in limited situations, as contrasted with … its seeming ubiquity in the business pages. Lacking an accurate underlying conception of innovation, the current tools and … theories of antitrust are inadequate. For innovation to be more muscular and better account for real world examples of …

technological innovation is apparent while technology lock-in is a rare phenomenon. Antitrust policy founded on technology lock …-in arguments is misguided and is likely to damage incentives for innovation …

innovation system more closely on private funding and markets, and thus on the acquisition of patents at the front end of the … coming innovation pipeline. The choice to rely on private markets and patents is highly debatable. But it is certain to … will result from the unbalanced worldwide patenting of climate change technologies, the magnitude of the coming innovation …