patent policy are few. Possible reasons for these limited results are discussed, and possible avenues for future research are …This paper surveys the major changes in patent policy and practice that have occurred in the last two decades in the U … effects of changes in patent policy. Despite the significance of the policy changes and the wide availability of detailed data …

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 …

Is there any evidence that innovation and technological progress are contained by competition and fostered by monopoly … that this is not the case.On the contrary, using both patent statistics and productivity growth as alternative measures of … innovation and technical change, we observe faster technological advances in more competitive markets. These results are robust …