about promoting innovation? I argue that empirical progress in patent law depends on greater policy diversity (rather than …Many scholars have wrestled with what I call the “first-order question” in patent law: What policies should we adopt to … promote innovation? This article grapples with the second-order question: What policies should we adopt to promote innovation …

framework in which every innovation builds on previous inventions the standard argument for granting patent protection is no … Free/Open Source Software (FOSS). In a seminal paper Bessen and Maskin (2006) argue that in a dynamic sequential innovation …

This paper studies a simple model of experimentation and innovation. Our analysis suggests that patents may improve the … project to implement. A successful innovation can be copied by other firms. Symmetric equilibria (where actions do not depend … equilibria). In contrast to patents, subsidies to experimentation, research, or innovation cannot typically achieve this …

Although it may surprise scientists, one can receive a patent in many jurisdictions without implementing an invention …

Innovative behavior is mostly studied theoretically, e.g., in models of patent races, and empirically, e.g., by using R …&D or patent data. This research, however, is only poorly informed about the psychological tradition of creativity research …, personality traits and innovation game behavior in the lab are interrelated. With the help of a within-subject design we find that …

Innovation economics is usually neglecting the psychological tradition of creativity research. Our study is an attempt … skills and personality traits on the one hand and innovative capability, the topic of innovation economics, on the other hand … are interrelated. We find that participants' performance in innovation games is related to their creativity, risk …

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substitute for incomplete (legal) protection of innovation effort. They may help firms settle the resulting fairness issue, and …, through successful innovation, competitors might gain an advantage. This is the case if the opposite market side has …. -- Antitrust ; Innovation ; research and development agreements ; block exemption ; oligopoly experiments ; meta-study …

theoretical predictions. Patents and subsidies increase investment in R&D and the observed amounts of investment in the patent and …