From a firm’s perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand …, innovative performance is an important driver of profitability and growth. On the other hand, investments in innovation suffer …

fulfill the responsibilities they have been assigned in fostering innovation. But I argue here that in their moments of …

Intellectual property regimes are usually presumed to exert positive inducements on technological innovation. However … the intersection of three fields: innovation studies, welfare theories, and international political economy. It revisits … prior drug generations and alternate inducements. The article offers a novel 2X2 conceptual framework to study innovation in …

innovation, but once discovery takes place there is an incentive to lower protection. The sub optimal but time consistent policy … involves an insufficient level of protection and, therefore, of innovation. In more technologically advanced economies …

This paper examines the implications of Open Source License (OSL) selection on software innovation, and suggests how …

This paper develops a product cycle model with endogenous and costly innovation, imitation, and foreign direct … resource scarcity in the South back to the North and consequently contracts innovation …

suggest using rewards as incentives for innovation instead. However, these studies have thus far had little effect on actual …

Novelty value is one of the legal requirements for a patentable innovation but it has been given relatively little … attention in the literature. It is often abstracted away by assuming that any innovation is patentable. We study the optimal … novelty requirement in a model where ideas are scarce, and where turning an idea into an innovation requires resources. We …