While the potential for intellectual property rights to inhibit the diffusion of scientific knowledge is at the heart … this debate is how intellectual property rights over a given piece of knowledge affects the propensity of future … researchers to build upon that knowledge in their own scientific research activities. This article frames this debate around the …

innovation infrastructure (cross-cutting factors which contribute broadly to innovativeness throughout the economy), the … environment for innovation in its leading industrial clusters, and the strength of linkages between these two areas. We use this … individual country's knowledge stock.' Further, the predicted level of national innovative capacity has an important impact on …

from pharmaceutical innovation. Extending previous studies of the welfare benefits from innovation (Trajtenberg, 1990 …

This paper studies the links between productivity, innovation and research at th level. We introduce three new features …: (i) A structural model that explains pro by innovation output, and innovation output by research investment; (ii) New dat … the available data: only a small proportion of firms engage in resea apply for patents; productivity, innovation and …

segmentation) shaped the underlying incen- tives for innovation in the PC industry during the mid to late 1980s …

This is an introduction to the forthcoming volume "The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth." The … chapters collected in this volume seek to answer the following questions: What is the relationship between innovation …/entrepreneurship and economic growth in specific industrial sectors? How has the relationship between innovation /entrepreneurship and …

impact by serving as a new general-purpose "method of invention" that can reshape the nature of the innovation process and … stimulating research productivity and innovation-oriented competition going forward …

that the total current period (static) welfare gains of introducing a process or a product innovation are, on average …