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 …

The structure of industrial R&D has undergone considerable change since 1985, particularly
in the United States. But rather than creating an entirely novel system, this restructuring has …

Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to
biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. Melinda Cooper and …

We investigate whether patents on human genes have affected follow-on scientific research
and product development. Using administrative data on successful and unsuccessful patent …

Open Innovation describes an emergent model of innovation in which firms draw on
research and development that may lie outside their own boundaries. In some cases, such …

The Open Innovation paradigm can be understood as the antithesis of the traditional vertical
integration model where internal research and development (R&D) activities lead to …

Since the early 1980s, universities in the United States have greatly expanded their
patenting and licensing activities. The Congressional Joint Economic Committee, among …

In this sprawling and ambitious book John Braithwaite successfully manages to link the
contemporary dynamics of macro political economy to the dynamics of citizen engagement …

Economists often assume that a patent gives its owner a well-defined legal right to exclude
others from practicing the invention described in the patent. In practice, however, the rights …

Do intellectual property (IP) rights on existing technologies hinder subsequent innovation?
Using newly collected data on the sequencing of the human genome by the public Human …