and innovation measurement, but these other benefits do, and motivate quality adjustment methods when semiconductor …

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 …

present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of …

While many studies have looked at innovation and adoption of technologies separately, the two processes are linked …

I survey some recent research on the role of patents in encouraging innovation and growth in developing economies … discuss research on the implications of patents for international technology transfer and domestic innovation. This is … performance, and the impact on pharmaceutical patenting and domestic innovation. The conclusion suggests that patents may be …

outcome. The totality of possible outcomes drives the national innovation system and the returns to a particular successful … required to motivate investment attempting to turn them into an innovation. The alternative to a valuable proprietary … innovation is not the same innovation freely available but the unchanged generic technology. Growth is concentrated in any …

opportunities. The paper also provides new evidence on induced pharmaceutical innovation. In both cases we use the change in the … demographic structure of the market (measured by age structure and obesity prevalence) to test the induced innovation hypothesis … pharmaceutical innovation responds to aging- and obesity-induced changes in potential market size …