American innovation policy as expressed through intellectual property law contains a curious gap: it encourages … precondition for innovation. This Article provides an in-depth analysis of a policy problem that relates to this gap: increasingly …, public and private innovation investments depend upon the willingness of private firms and institutions to cooperatively pool …

innovation, given announced compensations. This assumption is significantly different from those used in the literature, and it …

economic implications of these processes are explored, including their application to stochastic learning curves, patent design …

approach to managing the innovation process. The quantification lets managers precisely compare the values of different … consumer preferences can change during the innovation process, the method is used to precisely answer frequently …-posed questions on the best performers among seven standard innovation approaches. Sensitivity analyses show how the approach values …