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 &...

We analyze the development of the German knowledge base measured by co-classifications of patents by German inventors and relate this technological development to changes in the structure of the underlying inventor networks. Our central hypothesis states that technologies which become more...