Innovation and Incentives

Suzanne Scotchmer

360 pages, parution le 10/10/2006

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Interest in intellectual property and other institutions that promote innovation exploded during the 1990s. Innovation and Incentives provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the economics of innovation, suitable for teaching at both the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. It will also be useful to legal and economics professionals. Written by an expert on intellectual property and industrial organization, the book achieves a balanced mix of institutional details, examples, and theory. Analytical, empirical, or institutional factors can be given different emphases at different levels of study.

Innovation and Incentives presents the historical, legal, and institutional contexts in which innovation takes place. After a historical overview of the institutions that support innovation, ranging from ancient history through today's government funding and hybrid institutions, the book discusses knowledge as a public good, the economic design of intellectual property, different models of cumulative innovation, the relation of competition to licensing and joint ventures, patent and copyright enforcement and litigation, private/public funding relationships, patent values and the return on R&D investment, intellectual property issues arising from direct and indirect network externalities, and globalization. The text presents technical and abstract analysis and at the same time sheds light on current controversies and policy-relevant topics, including the difficulty of enforcing copyright in the digital age and international protection of intellectual property.

L'auteur - Suzanne Scotchmer

Suzanne Scotchmer is Professor of Economics and Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an authority on how patents and other incentives drive innovation in the new economy. Scotchmer has advised the US government and the US National Academy of Sciences on innovation policy. She is a Research Associate of the NBER.

Sommaire

Institutions: A Brief Excursion through History with Stephen M. Maurer
Investing in Knowledge
A Primer for Non lawyers on Intellectual Property with Stephen M. Maurer
On the Optimal Design of Intellectual Property
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Protecting Cumulative Innovators
Licensing, Joint Ventures, and Competition Policy
Litigation and Enforcement
Innovation Today: A Private-Public Partnership with Stephen M. Maurer
The Value of R&D and Patents
Networks and Network Effects
Innovation in the Global Economy

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Éditeur(s)	The MIT Press
Auteur(s)	Suzanne Scotchmer
Parution	10/10/2006
Nb. de pages	360
Format	17 x 22
Couverture	Broché
Poids	565g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780262693431
ISBN13	978-0-262-69343-1