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NBER Books - Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 6


Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 6
Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, editors

The MIT Press, 2006
Paper: $25.00; Cloth: $58.00
215 pages
ISBN: Paper: 0-262-60068-4; Cloth: 0-262-10118-1

Some chapters may have appeared as NBER Working Papers, which are preliminary versions of the published papers.

Table of Contents:

    Introduction, p. xi-xv
    Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern

    1. Policy Implications of Weak Patent Rights, p. 1-26
    James J. Anton, Hillary Greene and Dennis A. Yao

    2. Innovation and Its Discontents, p. 27-65
    Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner

    3. Consumer Benefit from Use of the Internet, p. 67-90
    Fiona Scott Morton

    4. Opportunities for Improving the Drug Development Process: Results from a Survey of Industry and the FDA, p. 91-121
    Ernst R. Berndt, Adrian H. B. Gottschalk and Matthew W. Strobeck

    5. Does Globalization of the Scientific/Engineering Workforce Threaten U.S. Economic Leadership? p. 123-157
    Richard B. Freeman

    6. Looking for Mr. Schumpeter: Where Are We in the Competition-Innovation Debate? p. 159-215
    Richard Gilbert


 
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