Jaffe / Lerner Innovation and Its Discontents

How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It
With a New preface by the authors
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3734-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Adam B. Jaffe is Professor of Economics and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis University. He is the author, with Manuel Trajtenberg, of Patents, Citations, and Innovations: A Window on the Knowledge Economy. Josh Lerner is Jacob H. Schiff professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management Units. His books include The Money of Invention.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jaffe, Adam B.

Lerner, Josh

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz Patentrecht, Gebrauchs- und Geschmacksmusterrecht, Designrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
Introduction: They Fixed It, and Now It’s Broke 1
CHAPTER 1: Today’s Patent System at Work 25
CHAPTER 2: The Dark Side of Patents 56
CHAPTER 3: The Long Debate 78
CHAPTER 4: The Silent Revolution 96
CHAPTER 5: The Slow Starvation 127
CHAPTER 6: The Patent Reform Quagmire 151
CHAPTER 7: Innovation and Its Discontents 170
Notes 209
Index 229

Über Autor(innen)

Adam B. Jaffe is Professor of Economics and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis University. He is the author, with Manuel Trajtenberg, of Patents, Citations, and Innovations: A Window on the Knowledge Economy. Josh Lerner is Jacob H. Schiff professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management Units. His books include The Money of Invention.