This review surveys recent research on the economics of patents. The topics covered
include theoretical and empirical evidence on patents as incentives for innovation, the …

Schumpeter's conjecture that large monopolistic firms were the key source of innovation in
modern industrial economies has been the underpinning for much work on the topic of …

A leading innovation scholar explains the growing phenomenon and impact of free
innovation, in which innovations developed by consumers and given away “for free.” In this …

In this paper, we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two
increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single-user individuals or firms …

The process of user-centered innovation: how it can benefit both users and manufacturers
and how its emergence will bring changes in business models and in public policy …

We present quantitative and qualitative evidence on the relative productivity of university
technology transfer offices (TTOs). Our empirical results suggest that TTO activity is …

In recent years, business leaders, policymakers, and inventors have complained to the
media and to Congress that today's patent system stifles innovation instead of fostering it …

135 USC?? 100-376 (2000). 2See, eg, id.? 103 (b)(2000)(special nonobviousness provision
for biotechnology).'Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 US 303, 309 (1980)(citing S. Rep. No. 82 …

This paper provides a quantitative study (N= 268) of patterns of free revealing of firm-
developed innovations within embedded Linux, a type of open source software (OSS). I find …

We argue that when innovation is “sequential”(so that each successive invention builds in
an essential way on its predecessors) and “complementary”(so that each potential innovator …