NBER Books - Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 7

Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 7
Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, editors

The MIT Press, 2006
Paper: $25.00; Cloth: $58.00
154 pages
ISBN: Paper: 0-262-60070-6; Cloth: 0-262-10121-1

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. Is the Pharmaceutical Industry in a Productivity Crisis?, p. 1-32
    Iain M. Cockburn

    2. When Ideas Are Not Free: The Impact of Patents on Scientific Research, p. 33-69
    Fiona Murray and Scott Stern

    3. Wrapping It Up in a Person: The Mobility Patterns of New PhDs, p. 71-98
    Paula Stephan

    4. Innovation Incentives for Information Goods, p. 99-123
    Erik Brynjolfsson and Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang

    5. Innovating under Pressure - Towards a Science of Crisis Management, p. 125-154
    Daniel Diermeier, Wallace J. Hopp and Seyed Iravani