Innovation Policy and the Economy

Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 8, edited by Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, is now available for $58.00. This volume, part of an annual series that previously had been published by the MIT Press, includes papers presented at a Washington DC-area conference on: the impediments to academic biomedical research; commercializing university innovations; neutrality in Internet access; and patent policy.

All three editors are NBER Research Associates in the Program on Productivity. Jaffe is the Fred C. Hecht Professor in Economics and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis University; Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School; and Stern is Associate Professor of Management and Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.