about the relationship between the patent system and innovation, in order to draw some tentative conclusions about their …

innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous. We then … externalities, implies that IP may not be the ideal and cannot be the only policy instrument to encourage innovation in this area …

Interest in intellectual property and other institutions that promote innovation exploded during the 1990s. Innovation … and Incentives provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the economics of innovation, suitable for teaching at … levels of study. Innovation and Incentives presents the historical, legal, and institutional contexts in which innovation …