Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...

We examine how the ownership of intellectual property rights influences patenting of university-discovered inventions. In 2002, Germany transferred patent rights from faculty members to their universities. To identify the effect on the volume of patenting, we exploit the researcher-level...

Innovation and development / Graham Dutfield -- Innovation and the law of intellectual property / Uma Suthersanen & Graham Dutfield -- Utility models and other alternatives to patents / Uma Suthersanen & Graham Dutfield -- Policy considerations for governments governments / Uma Suthersanen &...