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 … that current European patent law holds substantial potential for technology-specific application. Even though the European …

negotiated between Canadian governments and privately owned utility companies, and 30 years after the Economic Council of Canada … Canada own at least 150 more firms. These public enterprises typically operate in industries prone to the formation of what …, political and economic environments in Canada have been institutionally secure, mature and sophisticated. However, the division …

partnership strategies on areas deemed to be “pre-competitive” — areas of collaboration without competition and typically also … the drug discovery and development process. The Article concludes that a targeted statutory patent fair use may begin to …

of the patent system and related forms of protection than has previously been recognised. Nevertheless, the rate of … patent protection, an exclusion whose history has produced a substantial body of scholarship. However, its aims go beyond …

In this paper, we provide a very simple model to shed light on the issue of managed competition in mixed quasi … the proÖt-oriented Örm. Secondly, the socially-preferable form of managed competition is to introduce coproduction …

about their care and the scope of competition between hospitals. …

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on … the impact of competition on hospital outcomes. The English government introduced a policy in 2006 to promote competition … introduction of competition on not only clinical outcomes but also productivity and expenditure. We find that the effect of …