incentive in driving innovation and prosperity. A review of patent box regimes around the world is provided, with summaries of …Innovation is widely recognized as the key to sustainable economic growth. Because people and projects are mobile in …. Research and development incentives are therefore very important, and patent box regimes are becoming more and more popular …

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … lower than the social plannerś benchmark, which suggests a role for patent policy. We focus on a "non-infringing inventive … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …

reasonable degree of confidence. First, patents’ incentive effect is a positive function of the difference between innovation … alternative non-patent instruments by which to increase third-parties’ imitation costs. Third, patents’ incentive effect is a …The incentive thesis supplies the primary rationale for the patent system: without an exclusionary right, firms will …

An introduction to innovation and policy / Louise Earl and Fred Gault -- What do we know about innovation and socio …-economic change? : lessons from the TEARI Project / Jan Fagerberg -- The role of benchmarks and targets in Canadian innovation policy … / Surendra Gera, Richard Roy and Thitima Songsakul -- Innovation in enterprise clusters : evidence from Dutch manufacturing …