The Economics of Innovation and Intellectual Property - Softcover

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Helmers, Christian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0197630928 ISBN 13: 9780197630921

Publisher: OUP USA, 2024

Synopsis

The first comprehensive textbook covering all aspects of the economics of innovation and the role of intellectual property in encouraging or discouraging innovation

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About the Author

Bronwyn H. Hall is Professor of Economics Emerita at the University of California at Berkeley, Visiting Professor at MPI-Munich, and a Research Associate at the NBER, IFS-London, and the Innovation Lab, College de France. She received the 2024 Award of the Distinguished Fellow granted by the American Economic Association. She has published numerous articles on the economics and econometrics of technical change and innovation and is the editor of the Handbook of the Economics of Innovation in the Elsevier series of economic handbooks. Her research includes analysis of the use of intellectual property systems in developed and developing countries, the valuation of intangible (knowledge) assets, comparative firm-level R&D investment and innovation studies, measuring the returns to R&D and innovation, and analysis of such technology policies as R&D subsidies and tax incentives.

Christian Helmers is Professor of Economics at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University and

Visiting Professor at KU Leuven. His research focuses on innovation and intellectual property. Before joining Santa Clara, he was an assistant professor at Universidad Carlos III, Madrid. Prior to that, he worked as a research economist at the London School of Economics.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0197630928
• ISBN 13: 9780197630921
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 648