The multiple features of intellectual property rights and industrial competition are explored through the analytically rigorous lens of the frontier of the economics literature. The book covers a broad range of issues ranging from industrial espionage to collective property rights in cultural...

Introduction -- Public acts and bills -- Private acts and bills -- Legislation of the old Scottish and Irish parliament -- Statutory instruments -- Parliamentary rewards -- Parliamentary and command papers -- Petitions -- Parliamentary questions and debates.

Innovation and Institutions is an extensive elaboration on the make up of systems of innovation. It examines why some countries are more innovative than others, why national styles of innovation differ, and goes on to explore why some countries make radical innovations but fail to successfully...

Parliament, Inventions and Patents- Front Cover -- Parliament, Inventions and Patents -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Journal references -- Offices -- Introduction -- Part 1: Public Acts and Bills -- Introduction -- Reference number and year --...