proposals have been framed as issues of access and spending. If innovation incentives come up at all, it has primarily been … because pharmaceutical companies claim that reducing drug prices will threaten innovation by lowering the returns from their … patents.In fact, however, pharmaceutical access and innovation incentives are intimately related. Health insurance can change …

healthcare, discourages cost cutting and encourages wasteful innovation. For one, Medicare pays physicians and hospitals … separately, preventing integration and delivery innovation because most providers cannot afford to adopt a noncompliant …

and stimulating innovation in the biotechnology sector, some policy levers narrow down the patent potential for …In their animated book 'The Patent Crisis and How the Courts can Solve It', Dan Burk and Mark Lemley give an account of … industry specific differences in the patent system from both a legal and economic perspective. The present article attempts to …

century. In addition to the funding agency, the data report whether the government has title to the patent ("title" patents …) or funded a patent assigned to a private organization ("license" patents). The data include a large number of "license …" patents that cannot be linked to government funding from patent text or other sources. Combining the historical data with …

impact on the U.S. innovation system, catalyzing technology clusters around the country with accompanying increases in high …. In the aggregate, wartime R&D permanently changed the trajectory of U.S. innovation in the direction of funded …

In the last decades, innovation activity has been defined by an increasing complexity and a faster pace of the … underlying technological change. Accordingly, several studies have shown that competitive systems of innovation benefit from … technological synthesis within the broader economy. Using data on patents and patent citations obtained from the PATSTAT …

Federal research funding to universities is often based on a desire to stimulate innovation - so that they spend … innovation and productivity growth. In this paper we use new data to examine how the main organizational structure used to train …

to obtain patent rights in hopes that the patent incentive will foster commercialization, as well as generate revenues to … patent and licensing practices. Specific suggestions to modify the currently proposed regulations are provided …