Innovation Policy and the Economy

Discusses the effect of public policy on the innovation process. This title includes topics such as the apparent productivity decline in the pharmaceutical industry; the effect of patents on both the "scientific commons" and cumulative discovery; the mechanism to create economic incentives for producers of digital goods; and more.

About the author

Erik Brynjolfsson is Schussel Family Professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business. He is the coeditor of Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research (MIT Press).

Product details

• Authors: Adam B. Lerner Jaffe
• Assisted by: Adam B. Jaffe (Editor), Josh Lerner (Editor), Josh (Harvard Business School) Lerner (Editor), Josh A. Lerner (Editor), Scott Stern (Editor), Scott (Professor of Technological Innovation Stern (Editor)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.02.2007
• EAN: 9780262600705
• ISBN: 978-0-262-60070-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: NBER Innovation Policy and the Economy; Nber Innovation Policy and the; Innovation Policy and the Economy; NBER Innovation Policy and the Economy; Nber Innovation Policy and the
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries