Modern research and innovation policy is largely based in neoclassical welfare economics, in which the diagnosis of market failure in the production of new information is translated into a case for innovation policy. Both New Institutional and Public Choice economics criticize this approach...

The standard economic model of intellectual property is an efficient property rights solution to a market failure problem of investment in a non-rival and non-excludable good. We propose a new ‘stationary bandit’ model of intellectual property based on a contracting approach in the context...

Ideas are ubiquitous. They are the fundamental building blocks for all aspects of life. Yet, efforts to use ideas as a basic unit of analysis in a shared framework are rare. We often find it difficult to look past the artificial boundaries that academic disciplines and specialist fields of...

Introduction to blockchain technologies -- Blockchain in sports and marketing business models -- Truth and trust in sports -- Sports data as an economic output -- New organisation forms in sports -- eSports and the metaverse -- The future for blockchain in sports.